[Nick Danger]

he effectively ratified the ICC treaty when he negotiated for exemptions for American servicemen.

Stop telling people this stuff. It isn't true.

San Francisco Chronicle
August 21, 2002

Although President Bill Clinton signed the treaty that created the ICC, the Bush administration withdrew this nation's support of the court. Then, Washington announced that it would use military force to free any U.S. citizen detained by the court. Now, in a final attempt to undermine the court's authority, the Bush administration has threatened to cut off military aid to any nation unless it promises never to surrender any suspected American citizen to the ICC.

What more do ya want?

[inquest]

Nice try, but he made that statement after the enactment of the Servicemembers' Protection Act, which requires him to do just that, and which Congress essentially forced upon him. What he did prior to that was far more telling. He negotiated with the Security Council to grant a one-year exemption to American servicemen in Bosnia from the ICC's jurisdiction, thus giving the ICC legitimacy it was far from deserving.