Human Rights Judge: Cheney Should Be Tried For War Crimes
Not only is George W. Bush ignorant, but Cheney should be tried for his crimes during the Iraq war, said a former International Court of Justice judge, Thomas Buergenthal, as per occupydemocrats
The crux of his argument was that Bush's decision to overrun Iraq was not to fight terrorism but just to show off to his mother. Hence, he was "an ignorant person who wanted to show his mother he could do things his father couldn't." Even Richard Nixon was "more intelligent," said Buergenthal. He did not "think Nixon would have got involved in Iraq."
He was quite harsh on Dick Cheney. "But some of us have long thought that Cheney, and a number of CIA agents who did what they did in those so-called black holes [overseas torture centers] should appear before the ICC. We [in the USA] could have tried them ourselves."
Added Buergenthal: "I voted for Obama but I think he made a great mistake when he decided not to instigate legal proceedings against some of these people," according to commondreams But that there is still hope, he feels. "I think - yes - that it will happen," he said.
Buergenthal's words on the issue can be respected, as he is not only a Holocaust survivor, but was a judge on the International Court of Justice for 10 years. Finally, he moved into the US as a citizen, and became Professor of Law at George Washington University. He had been imprisoned at Auschwitz.
In 2012, Foreign Policy Journal reported: "At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment."
Relevant documents are expected to be passed on to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council. The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission is also requesting that the names of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Yoo, Bybee, Addington and Haynes be entered into the Commission's Register of War Criminals for public record.
