[JohnHuang2]

Saturday, July 13, 2002

Quote of the Day posted by Dead Corpse

[brat]

"Mr. Bush is seeking blanket immunity for the United States from ICC"

Stick to your guns, George. If the rest don't like it....tough.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Blackyce]

So, they are, in effect, enfranchising the idiotic political decision-making that lost us the Vietnam War. Anyone wanna make a bet on Bush getting the whole Iraq issue out of the way before that one year of immunity is up?

[madfly]

ping

[Carry_Okie]

"Asking" the ICC for immunity is acknowledging an authority it has not been granted by the people of this sovereign nation. It is not the ICC's decision because they are illegitimate. If they move on our people or our commerce, they are engaging in a criminal act and should be dealt with appropriately.

[Valin]

The ICC, a wonderful idea, who's time has come....and gone.

[norton]

The article concentrates on Afganistan (Bush) but it is lots more interesting to consider how"

"Article 8, section 2(b)(iv) makes criminal the planning or launching of "an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated."

Might better apply to the filmed bombing of a civilian train, blanketing entire electricity grids with carbon and shorting out most of a small nation, dropping the bridges across the Danube and closing down commerce to the entire region, seizing then shutting down a nation's single largest mine complex, then selling it off, chasing an entire ethnic group away from their homes and handing them over to a foreign invader.

The foregoing recently carried out in large part simply to cover Bill Clinton's sorry butt when he got caught playing doctor with one of his tax dollar bought party girls ....
That sounds like it fits "excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage..." to me!