Bush and Saddam Should Both Stand Trial, Says Nuremberg Prosecutor

Bush and Saddam Should Both Stand Trial, Says Nuremberg Prosecutor
Aaron Glantz
OneWorld US
Fri., Aug. 25, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 25 (OneWorld) - A chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg has said George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein. Benjamin Ferencz, who secured convictions for 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating the death squads that killed more than 1 million people, told OneWorld both Bush and Saddam should be tried for starting "aggressive" wars--Saddam for his 1990 attack on Kuwait and Bush for his 2003 invasion of Iraq.

"Nuremberg declared that aggressive war is the supreme international crime," the 87-year-old Ferencz told OneWorld from his home in New York. He said the United Nations charter, which was written after the carnage of World War II, contains a provision that no nation can use armed force without the permission of the UN Security Council.

Ferencz said that after Nuremberg the international community realized that every war results in violations by both sides, meaning the primary objective should be preventing any war from occurring in the first place.

He said the atrocities of the Iraq war--from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of dozens of civilians by U.S. forces in Haditha to the high number of civilian casualties caused by insurgent car bombs--were highly predictable at the start of the war.

much more at:
http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/138319/1/

They should be in the same cell!

Lots of good discussion here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

Peace, kpete

Who will dare put the pResident of the U.S. on trial? Only the citizens of the U.S. can demand that, and I'm afraid our national attention span is not adequate to the task.

It's their law!

"Let me get my gun"

I think that is how the simple-folk would take this.

I'm surprised they haven't levied sanctions against us or something...