Will the new ICC charge President Bush for Crimes against Humanity?
964370
Hmmmm.....tough to say because the people whom we want to bring charges against are the law makers themselves. There is a strong reason for putting up charges agains Bush and Blair in the Internation Criminal Court (some people didn't know the full form here) or Cour internationale de Justice/ International court of jusitce. Both these two have waged an illegal war (as per the United Nations charter on going to conflict and war) and both have violated some serious international laws\n\nIn UK some people already tried to bring charges against Blair.\n\nBut here we are talking about fighting against big countries and powerful people...every country has done some or the other wrong thing...China's government is blamed for gross Human Rights abuses, Indian government for supporting the terrorist organizations like LTTE in Sri Lanka and Maoist terrorists in Nepal and many others in South Asia...but hmmm...\n\nWe don't live in a perfect world and people can run away from the crime as long as they have the power and occupy the places that matter.
150661
Both, but Bush has the potential to do much greater harm over time. His embargo on Iraq accounted (according to UN Relief) for the death of about 500 thousand children over nearly 10 years. If he goes on, the toll on the arab countries might entitle the Bush family for an award for genocide against all arab nations, I say award because I doubt he'll ever be tried to crimes (like last week's bombing of a Pakistani village over the Iraq border murdered a few peasant families) but who cares about these things, anyway.
191022
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other right wing zealots in the U.S. government have conspired to wage an illegal war of aggression against Iraq, kidnap and torture civilians around the world, attack civilians and medical facilities in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. These crimes violate U.S. law, the U.S. Constitution, the Hague and Geneva conventions and other treaties and conventions.\n\nThere is no question that the U.S. is responsible for war crimes, the question is who will stand up to the Bush Adminstration. Who can question the U.S.? No politician will speak out. No court will take the case. No international organization is willing to challenge the U.S. No other nation dares to risk retribution from the U.S. government by even raising the issue.\n\nOnly the people can challenge these crimes. Only by raising a public hue and cry so loud that the issue cannot be politely ignored will this horrific crime spree be stopped.
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President Bush is guilty of many things and will be remembered as the worst President in the History of the United States. Bush is guilty of.....\n\nSeizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of tens of thousands of Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s.\n\n2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war.\n\n3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable. \n\n4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency.\n\n5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression.\n\n6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.\n\n7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.\n\n8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.\n\n9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."\n\n10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.\n\n11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.\n\n12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of app
805447
International law - no grounds for it.\n\nA stronger case could be made for treason trials for several Democratic leaders.  Are you in?
461707
First the president would have to committ a crime, as he can only be tried by the senate (the house draws the articles).  There's no precedent for a coup without fault.  As many people would like to think, Bush has broken no laws.  Lying isn't against the law, unless it's under oath, and he never was.  Deal with it.  If he breaks the law, then we'll talk
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I have a dream, I see George Bush and the rest of his administration being led down the white house steps in hand cuffs and leg Irons, under arrest for his crimes against humanity. As far as I am concerned the domestic charges can wait. He has killed, and maimed many innocent people in Iraq with his war of choice. He had no real compelling reason to attack a sovereign country with the sole purpose of over thrown their government. His holding hostages in Cuba, torturing prisoners the list of these crimes are many. I would like to see him on trial so that justice could be done.
753154
I am no fan of Bush, but the whole issue of war crimes is nonsense. This is not Nuremburg. Bush has made a ton of mistakes and his party paid for it today. But he is no criminal. Criminals are much smarter than that.
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Helllll, yes! Please read, The Four Reasons.\n\nThe invasion of Iraq is illegal within the framework of the laws of the United States Constitution and the United Nations Charter. \n\n\n1. The invasion of Iraq has been planned for many years by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), an organization founded by a small group of right wing political ideologues and corporate elite dedicated to promoting American global leadership. The PNAC signatories hold the most powerful positions in the current administration and other highly influential political offices. Read their Statement of Principles and note the signatories. Read the PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" for a detail of their military strategy for American global  hegemony. The Downing Street Memo and other key documents unambiguously indicate that the policy of regime change in Iraq was planned as early as July 2002 and "the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."\n\n\n2. Many members of the Bush Administration are convicted criminals. The World Tribunal on Iraq held it's culminating session in Istanbul in June 2005 and declared the Bush Administration guilty of starting a War of Aggression, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity as indicated in their Declaration of the Jury of Conscience. A War Crimes Tribunal held in NYC on August 26, 2004 found many members of the Bush Administration guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and high crimes and misdemeanors for which they are impeachable (audio of Ramsey Clark). The International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan convened in Tokyo, 2003 found the Bush Administration guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity for the invasion of Afghanistan. The Brussels Tribunal has conducted "A Hearing on the Project for the New American Century" to discuss the nature of a premeditated, preemptive wars - a "war of aggression" being the highest international crime. In 1992, an International War Crimes Tribunal found the senior officers in the first Bush administration guilty on 19 counts of Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and other criminal acts in Violation of the Charter of the United Nations, International Law, The Constitution of the United States and Laws made in Pursuance thereof, for crimes committed during "Operation Desert Storm". View a list of our `elected' officials, their appointees, and their criminal offenses.\n\n\n3. There is no degree of separation between the current administration and those who control the means of production, the means of communication, and the military-industrial complex. Those individuals will benefit unfathomably from this and many future wars already planned by the PNAC. View information on who is making the money from the "War on Terrorism".\n\n\n4. "We the People" pay for "Operation Iraqi Freedom", the staging of "multiple theatre wars", and the killing of the innocent peoples of foreign lands in the name of Freedom and Democracy, while 'elected' officials pass radical legislation taking away our rights and controlling the flow of information.\n\n\nIn addition, wiretapping American citizens, and ADMITING the he planned on invading Iraq even if they did not have weapons.
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What high crimes or misdemeanors has President Bush committed?
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He absolutely should be tried for war crimes!  It's a shame that you're getting such inappropriate answers to your question.  From the beginning of the war of lies, Bush should have waited for the U.N. to come up with an acceptable way to join together, instead of his kick-ass Texas "I'll do it my way and I'll do it now" attitude. If we had more countries backing the U.S., I'd feel much more comfortable. Does the average person know how many thousands of Iraqis have been killed by our troops? These are innocent people too. Yes, Sadaam is a bad, horrible person, but he could have been "taken out" easier than having so many innocent people die. We are in a terrible state of affairs. I know how uncertain I am and afraid of terrorism and I feel badly for children growing up in this. And his illegal wiretaping - now KNOWN terrorists may be able to be released. What's going on is just unreal and I can't believe people are sitting back, just letting it happen. I think back to how much money and time was spent on Clinton having affairs. Clinton did a lot of good things and BUSH should be getting impeached. The more the press brings out, the worse the U.S. looks. Would Iran be so hateful now if Bush hadn't done so much? North Korea was not given the focus it should have had, or Bin Laden. Our troops are being kept against their will, for much longer than they signed up for duty. I wish there was a way to let other countries know that all American aren't warmongers!
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Very good question...\n\nMy answer is merely opinion. I think Bush has not been charged with war crimes, while he clearly has committed them, because the USA is currently the only superpower.\n\nThink about it... what if Germany had been the only superpower during WW2 and had won? The world wouldn't have been able to charge Hitler with war crimes.
403614
He probably is guilty as charged. I would hate to be in scooters shoes. Bush will be out to get him now. But the truth is cleansing.
500916
They have committed crimes against humanity. 2500 of our guys and 10's of thousands of Iraqi have died because mistakes were made. Bush and Blare are the top dogs and responsible for those deaths, because of mistakes. Bush has committed crimes because of the interment of people without due process. Not allowing the red cross to visit is against the Geneva convention, not releasing name of the prisoners. ect. ect. ect. I do think that both should have to go to the Hague and be tried for these crimes.
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Genocide would probably be hard to stick.  If you get liberal enough in your definitions (get the pun?) you could "convict" pretty much any government that's more than a hundred or so years old with quite a bit.  This is all moot since governments aren’t private citizens and thus can’t be tried as such and your question was about presidents anyways. Saddam Hussein is a self-admitted murderer and thug.  The fact that he couldn’t get an impartial trial anywhere in the western world doesn’t change this fact.  Most American presidents act outside American law at some point in their administration (even if it’s just to steal silverware from the white house upon moving out).  And the answer is no, the fact that they aren’t convicted of these things doesn’t mean we can’t allow the Iraqi people to charge Saddam for as many of the destructive things he did as they care too.
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There is outrage, but there needs to be even more. Bush DID break the law, which states that the government must show proof of the likelihood of obtaining significant information relating to the commission (or leading to the commission) of a crime to a court and obtain a warrant to conduct surveilance actions. Instead, he simply wraps himself in the flag and chants his mantra of national security ... yet in what are reported to be thousands (if not millions) of wiretaped conversations and emails, the government can not point out ONE instance in which they obtained any information that actually had an effect on our national security.\nAnd as for torture and holding of prisoners, he wants to have it both ways. He says they are being held as ememy combatants, so they are not under the jurisdiction of U.S. courts. But that would put them under the jurisdiction of the Geneva Conventions, of which we were signatories the last time I checked. And those rules are pretty specific in terms of how prisoners can be held and that they can't be tortured. Violating that is an international war crime, which is the same things we (through the Iraqi's) are currently charging Saddam with.\nWouldn't it be interesting to see how the world court would deal with these infractions ... because you can bet that if we weren't the world power we are, old George W. would be called to the Hague for a trial.
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Yes!!!! Though he never will be. Bush pulled out of the World Court, I guess because he wanted to try Saddam. The funny thing is we started it when we wanted to try the Nazi's. Don't see Saddam being tried in a world court.\n\nI bet he gets a fair trail in Iraq since early on one of the panel already said he was guilty. And guess what the President Of Iraq is? A KURD!\n\nBush has been tried in the Court of Public Opinion and he should be impeached and thrown out of Washington before he does something else stupid.