War Crime Shock: ICC Charges Leader With Mass Murder |
Incredible news in the Washington Post today:UNITED NATIONS, March 4 -- The International Criminal Court's pretrial judges issued an arrest warrant for former U.S. President George Walker Bush on Wednesday, charging that he directed the mass murder of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians. It is the first time the Hague-based court has accused an American head of state of war crimes. Oh wait; sorry. It looks like there was some detritus in the internet tubes, and the Post story was slightly garbled in transmission. It seems it was a mass-murdering leader named Bashir, not Bush, who has been charged by the International Criminal Court. We apologize for this mistake -- not only to our readers, but especially to Mr. Bush, who of course is not in the slightest danger of being charged by the International Criminal Court, but is instead enjoying a peaceful, comfortable, well-deserved retirement in his pricey new digs in Dallas. Having made such an egregious error, we feel we should say no more on the subject. Thus, we will leave the last word to Professor As'ad AbuKhalil: This arrest warrant is a joke, of course and will not be taken seriously outside of the offices of the New York Times. I mean, let us say that Bashir (a lousy dictator with very low intelligence level and a skill in turning into a buffoon before a crowd, with a history of cooperation with Western governments--overt and covert) is responsible for much of the bloodshed in Darfur, his record pales by that (if you count the numbers of victims) of George W. Bush. I mean, will that body issue an arrest warrant for Bush or any American president if he/she were to drop a nuclear bomb on an entire country or continent? Of course not. But then again: how can the White Man resist the temptation to preach and sermonize? The White Man can't resist that opportunity. Original Article Link
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