Saying no to war - Saying yes to International Criminal Court

page A15 of the Boston Globe ^ | 2/11/2003 | James Carroll

[rface]

DON'T BE FOOLED by Colin Powell. With testimony before the UN Security Council last week, the secretary of state brought many formerly ambivalent politicians and pundits into the war party. But that is a measure of how callow (immature) the entire American debate over war against Iraq has been. The question is not whether Saddam Hussein is up to no good. Powell's indictment confirmed the Iraqi's malfeasance, although with no surprises and no demonstration of immediate threat. The question, rather, is what to do about Saddam's malevolence.

[rface]

stupid is as stupid does...

If this is a re-post, then please delete

[Semper Paratus]

Just after 9/11, Carroll objected to a condo neighbor displaying the US flag on the neighbor's balcony.

UN flag would probably have been fine.

[BerniesFriend]

WHERE WAS THE BARF ALERT!?!?!?!?!?

[dfwgator]

I guess with a title like that, the Barf Alert was implied.

[KC_Conspirator]

This article is naive and ignorant. Its this type of thinking that leads to genocide and the deaths of millions.

[BerniesFriend]

That is true..I thought it might have been a parody..but the author was as serious as a heart attack..amazing..

[stremba]

A forceful indictment in such a forum, followed by a trial, verdict, and world-enforced sentence...


Of course Saddam would just peacefully turn himself in after such an indictment so that he could be tried, found guilty and punished. What a bunch of nitwits!!!

[The Man]

Exactly. This idiot doesn't seem to realize that the only way to enforce any decisions by an International or any other Court on a dictator in control of a country is through the threat of armed force or the use of armed force, which is, in other words, WAR!

[dirtboy]

Of course Saddam would just peacefully turn himself in after such an indictment so that he could be tried, found guilty and punished. What a bunch of nitwits!!!

Amazing, isn't it? Let say the International Criminal Court convicts Saddam. How are they gonna get to Saddam to toss him into the brig? By force. So such an action would STILL eventually require military action, and in fact, such a conviction would give Saddam even MORE of an incentive to fight to the death, because currently he could go into exile without such a penalty over his head.

Typical lib - all emotion and no thought about how an action would play out.

[Samurai_Jack]

Typical lib - all emotion and no thought about how an action would play out.

More to the point... It's the cynical use of every situation to twist a case for their agenda, in this case the International Criminal Court. Ariaha Huffington used the situation to twist in a case for enFIREonmentalists.

[richardtavor]

I guess they will send those blue helmeted "Peacekeepers" to enforce the courts opinion. Saddam will be shaking in his boots.

[Maceman]

DON'T BE FOOLED by Colin Powell.

Don't be fooled by James Carroll.