I love it when liberal celebrities and right wing war criminals become good friends, it's so wholesome.
I love it when liberal celebrities and right wing war criminals become good friends, it's so wholesome.
In the first-ever judgment of its kind, Bush and seven other top members of his administration were convicted in absentia of war crimes in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2012 for the unlawful invasion of Iraq.
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff, also accused Cheney of war crimes in 2011, citing the former vice president’s affinity for enhanced interrogation techniques.
“Waterboarding is a war crime, unwarranted surveillance ... all of which are crimes,” Wilkerson said in 2011. “I don’t care whether the president authorized him to do it or not, they are crimes.”
Former Counterterrorism Czar Richard Clarke: Bush, Cheney Committed War Crimes
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/richard-clarke-george-bush-war-crimes_n_5410619
I'll admit I'm ignorant of this. What does Malaysia have to do with anything?
The former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers, Param Cumaraswamy, has suggested the tribunal is a private enterprise with no legal basis and questions its legitimacy.[15] The tribunal does not have a UN mandate or recognition, no power to order arrests or impose sentences, and it is unclear that its verdicts have more than symbolic significance.[16]
http://www.npwj.org/content/Are-Geo...y-war-criminals-Malaysian-court-says-yes.htmlDid you just libel George Bush? He hasn't been charged or convicted of any war crimes.
I love it when liberal celebrities and right wing war criminals become good friends, it's so wholesome.