Bush unilaterally pulled out of the International Courts, proclaiming them to have no jurisdiction in the US, right when they had started investigating him for 31 charges of war crimes.
You can read the tribunal decision in it’s entirety at:
http://www.mindfully.org/reform/2004/afg…
Just for the record, the Constitution explicitly states that all international law and any treaties that are signed by the President and approved by a 2/3 majority of the House and the Senate is to be considered the highest law of the land, equal in power to the Constitution. The US were intrumental in founding the International Courts, and have brought charges against many countries in International Court.
The International Court is there to protect everyone from rogue nations that act in ways that anyone with a conscience would day is wrong. That is why Bush was found GUILTY on 33 charges of War Crimes and Crimes against humanity.
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http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/Afghanistan-Criminal-Tribunal10mar04.htm
It amazes me how some people in this country hate democracy so much! And how ignorant they can be! Bush pulled out of the International Court.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21981-2005Mar9.html
That’s a right wing newspaper.
Also, Bush was served twice, as detailed on the site I put up earlier. First time through the Embassy, second time in person at the White House.
It’s not little countries that make international law. It’s everyone together, and if you ever bothered to find out what the International Courts are about, you will see that the laws are self-explanatory stuff that anyone with a conscience would agree with…like not going into an innocent country and killing off the civilians. If you bothered to read the post, you would see that all of the charges make sense. Do you think that Hitler should not have been tried for war crimes? do you think that the leaders of all countries should be able to do whatever they feel like without consequences?
Don’t forget that our own Supreme Court (the majority of which is Republican) has ruled that several of Bush’s actions are uncostitutional and are war crimes by US law. I love the US, therefore, I don’t want to see an unelected “president” turn it into the rogue nation that it has become…unilaterally attacking soveriegn nations that were no threat to us, while repeatedly allowing the one person that did attack us to go free, use of illegal WMD on civilian populations, etc. And yes, DU has been illegal under US law since 1996.
