Impeachment Hearings for Bush & Co.? How about War Crimes Tribunals :: Alternative Press Review :: Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream

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Impeachment Hearings for Bush & Co.? How about War Crimes Tribunals :: Alternative Press Review :: Your Guide Beyond the Mainstream:

While Bush administration members have made a sport of breaking the law, both domestically and internationally, their intransigence will come back to haunt—one way or another.

The Bush Doctrine of taking 'the battle to the enemy,' for example, is a direct repudiation of the United Nations Charter, which prohibits the use of international force unless in self-defense (after an armed attack across an international border) or related to a UN Security Council decision. And that explains why Bush's 2002 National Security Strategy makes a point to 'protect Americans' from 'the potential for investigations, inquiry, or prosecution' by the International Criminal Court 'whose jurisdiction does not extend to Americans and which we do not accept.'While Bush administration members have made a sport of breaking the law, both domestically and internationally, their intransigence will come back to haunt—one way or another.