What Goes Around Comes Around - Blair to be charged with war crimes by International Criminal Court!

newsmax.com ^ | May 29, 2003 | Paul Craig Roberts

[ewing]

Is Michael Moore chief justice of this tribunal?

[MEG33]

This is insane.

[South40]

So Blair "...could be extradited to on specious charges brought by a prosecutor."

That's the precedent he's created?

LMAO!!!

[William McKinley]

total number of terrorists killed by the Chilean military is a fraction of the recent Iraqi civilian casualties at the hands of U.S. and U.K. forces.

I suppose Newsmax has legitimate, documented numbers for both cases that can be used to determine the legitimacy of that claim?

They are right about Pinochet getting hosed though.

[thinktwice]

The real criminals are those with One-World Government -- enslavement of humanity -- ambitions.

[Arpege92]

Blair is going to be charged for "Crimes against humanity"! That is not only STUPID, it is down right fraudulent. I hope Blair tells these morons to take these charges and shove them up their greek a$$'s!

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Were the so-called "World Court" in existence, sixty years ago: they'd have brought similar charges against FDR and Churchill, doubtless.

Outrage. Madness.

[Dog Gone]

With the United States becoming a multicultural Tower of Babel, who is to know that Bush, too, in his old age won't be handed over by a Hispanic president who has no concern for vanquished Anglo-American hegemony or agreements between vanished cultures and nations.

That last line is just stupid race-baiting. Sorry.

[willowpar]

With the United States becoming a multicultural Tower of Babel, who is to know that Bush, too, in his old age won't be handed over by a Hispanic president who has no concern for vanquished Anglo-American hegemony or agreements between vanished cultures and nations.

Hmmm...well this would explain why Bush and the Republicans have been kow-towing to Hispanic groups...;-)

[Yo-Yo]

President George Bush escapes being charged, as the United States is not a signatory to the ICC.

This sort of nonsense is exactly WHY the United States isn't a signatory.

[William McKinley]

See the line I pulled out- that is also nonsense I suspect.

When did Newsmax pick up Paul Craig Roberts? That wasn't a smart move by them.

[jgrubbs]

In 1998, it did not occur to Blair that five years later he would be roped into invading Iraq on trumped-up charges that it was a hotbed of al-Qaeda terrorists equipped with weapons of mass destruction.

Now Blair finds himself with a nasty bit of aggression on his record and as many as 10,000 civilian casualties. That puts him in league with Slobodan Milosovic, who at least was fighting terrorist separatists within his own borders.

It is fairly certain that the Blair government is not going to hand over Blair to the Greeks or to the ICC. If it did, Bush would send in the Special Forces to rescue him. But if the ICC issues a warrant, Blair won't be able to go to Greece or to any country that might hand him over to the ICC.

Indeed, once Blair achieves his goal of dissolving Great Britain into the European Union, there will be no sovereign British government to protect him. He could be picked up at will by EU police and handed over to the ICC.

With the United States becoming a multicultural Tower of Babel, who is to know that Bush, too, in his old age won't be handed over by a Hispanic president who has no concern for vanquished Anglo-American hegemony or agreements between vanished cultures and nations.

Is this article for real? It sounds like it was written by someone at The Onion.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Read the BBC report

[abner]

Comments?

[Tailgunner Joe]

Truth is stranger than fiction.

[tiamat]

No, that's just plain ugly.

Tia

[Alas Babylon!]

So, will we expect to see similar charges against:

Fidel Castro
Robert Mugabe
Muummar Khadafi
Assad's Boy
Hosni Mubarak
Yasser Arafat
Kim Il Dong
Dictators of the following countries-- Most of Africa, The People's Republic of China, Burma/Myamma, the Dude in Venezula.....Etc, Etc.

This whole thing is just a leftist's wet dream to go after those on the right.

[Grampa Dave]

Actually this race baiting author had better hope that he and his Greek buddies aren't rounded up and turned over to the new Freed Iraqis for war crimes. A whole lot of Paleo Cons should be afraid of that eventuality.

[Billthedrill]

From the BBC report:

...the case would be a test of the ICC's credibility.

I can't think of a quicker, easier way to turn the ICC into an irrelevant laughingstock than to make its first case one that is so inherently damaging - if it wins and cannot collect Blair, it looks foolish, if it loses, the whole thing is a waste of time. Are these people deliberately setting the ICC up to fail?