Counterterroriam Czar: Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld All Committed War Crimes

War Crimes Trial - Nuremberg

I have long argued that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney - who is a real dick - and Donald Rumsfeld committed war crimes and knowingly violated the Geneva Conventions.  Roughly 70 years ago, the United States and its allies tried - and in some cases executed - German and Japanese military and political leaders who committed similar breaches of the Geneva Convention and/or authorized the use of torture.  Now, George W. Bush’s own former top counter terrorism czar has said that he is convinced that Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld all committed war crimes during the Iraq war. If America wants to be taken seriously on the issue of human rights and the rule of law, there is no option but to put these three heinous men on trial.  Sadly, Barack Obama was too weak kneed to push for this back in 2009.  As a result we continue to see Cheney, a Darth Vader clone if there ever was one, spewing lies and bullshit on news shows.  The man should be behind bars - if not dead from execution for the war crimes he masterminded and authorized.   Here are highlights from The Raw Story:

President George W. Bush’s former top counterterrorism official said this week that he is convinced that Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld all committed war crimes during the Iraq war. 

In an interview that will air in full next week, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman asked former National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism Richard Clarke if “President Bush should be brought up on war crimes [charges], and Vice President Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, for the attack on Iraq.”

“I think things that they authorized probably fall within the area of war crimes,” Clarke agreed. “Whether that would be productive or not, I think, is a discussion we could all have.”

“But we have established procedures now with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where people who take actions as serving presidents or prime ministers of countries have been indicted and have been tried. So the precedent is there to do that sort of thing,” he pointed out. “And I think we need to ask ourselves whether or not it would be useful to do that in the case of members of the Bush administration.”

“It’s clear that things that the Bush administration did — in my mind, at least, it’s clear that some of the things they did were war crimes.”

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who was chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, has also said that he would be willing to testify in a war crimes trial against Bush administration officials.

Cheney in particular strikes me as one of the most amoral individuals one might encounter.  Sadly, Bush is an idiot who I suspect Cheney manipulated like a empty headed puppet.  He should NEVER have been president. Everyday that Cheney walks free without facing a trial for his misdeeds  is an insult to the Americans he sent to their deaths not to mention the thousands and thousands of Iraqis tortured or needlessly killed in a war that had no justification.  Thankfully, at least one nation has convicted them in absentia for war crimes.