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Should Obama Ask Chief Justice Roberts To Prosecute Bush for War Crimes?

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Should Obama Ask Chief Justice Roberts To Prosecute Bush for War Crimes?

    

While many Americans think of the Nuremberg trials after World War II as just holding German leaders accountable for genocide, a major charge against Adolf Hitler’s henchmen was the crime of aggressive war. Later, that principle was embodied in the United Nations Charter, forbidding armed aggression by one state against another.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, who represented the United States at the Nuremberg Tribunal, made clear that the intent was to establish a precedent against aggressive war.

“Our position is that whatever grievances a nation may have, however objectionable it finds the status quo, aggressive warfare is an illegal means for settling those grievances or for altering those conditions,” Jackson said, adding that the same rules would apply to the victors in World War II.

“Let me make clear that while this law is first applied against German aggressors, the law includes, and if it is to serve a useful purpose, it must condemn aggression by any other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment,” Jackson said.

“We are able to do away with domestic tyranny and violence and aggression by those in power against the rights of their own people only when we make all men answerable to the law. This trial represents mankind’s desperate effort to apply the discipline of the law to statesmen who have used their powers of state to attack the foundations of the world’s peace and to commit aggression against the rights of their neighbors” click here http://www.consortiumnews.com/Print/2006/032706.html     

YES, Obama should ask Roberts to prosecute
NO, Bush was never impeached so he didn't do anything worth prosecuting
NO, Roberts is not the right person to be in charge of prosecuting the Bush Administration
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Lance Ciepiela is a retired senior who had an interesting career in government service - a United States Marine Corps [ USMC ] Vietnam Era veteran, who became interested in restoring the Constitution after I realized that George W. Bush had attacked (more...)
 

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