How interesting that the International Criminal Court has chosen to issue an arrest warrant of dubious legality against Russian President Vladimir Putin on charges of war crimes within days of the twentieth anniversary of the US-led invasion and subsequent multi-year occupation of Iraq. One might be tempted to extend a little sympathy in the direction of the ICC had the ICC or, for that matter, any other international body of justice issued any charges, any due process, any punishment of those who had pushed for the invasion and occupation of Iraq, on totally false pretext in the fabrication of which practically the entire institutional governing structure and practically all western mainstream media participated, subjecting Iraq to continous misery, greater even than the misery inflicted upon it, again by the west,following the west’s first invasion of Iraq in 1991. The pretext was ludicrous in itself, given the ferocity with which the west had continued to bomb Iraq between 1991 and 2003, and the general disablement of Iraq as a result of western sanctions (including the deaths of half a million children), so that weapons experts knew before 2003 that there was no possibility that Iraq possessed the means either for nuclear or for chemical weapons.The evidence that was advanced in support was disproven either immediately or later, including all the evidence presented by Secretary of State Colin Powell at the United Nations (an episode for which Power later expressed great shame). There was no evidence of motivation and indirect attempts to link Hussein with Al Qaeda were clearly a sham.
I had a dream years ago that Bush was arrested for war crimes, after stepping off a plane in France. I felt a dead sinking in my heart upon waking from that dream and realizing it had not actually happened.
It’s proof of the absolute decay of western civilization and its pretense of upholding a banner of integrity and justice that not only are Bush and Cheney free, but that supposed intellectuals allow the dim, comical spectre of Trump’s purported evil to cause them nostalgia for the criminal regime of those despots.
I had a dream years ago that Bush was arrested for war crimes, after stepping off a plane in France. I felt a dead sinking in my heart upon waking from that dream and realizing it had not actually happened.
It’s proof of the absolute decay of western civilization and its pretense of upholding a banner of integrity and justice that not only are Bush and Cheney free, but that supposed intellectuals allow the dim, comical spectre of Trump’s purported evil to cause them nostalgia for the criminal regime of those despots.