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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (9512)	12/17/2005 10:23:22 AM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Fillmore > It is only when Americans realise that they do not have any divine right to dominate the rest of the world that we can expect any real change in US policy, and there is not much prospect of such a realisation yet. IMO, that's perfectly true. But there's no doubt that the neocons played on that sentiment like Yehudi Menuhin used to play on the violin. They knew what the American establishment (the people count for nothing) wanted and they endeavoured to give them what they wanted. Indeed, had the Iraq policy succeeded and Israel was able to pump oil at $10 a barrel from Kirkuk to Haifa as well as expand "Greater Israel" to the Euphrates, there's no doubt that 9/11 would have been forgotten as well as any hint that the Iraq war was illegal. Nevertheless, I'm quite sure even now, when it can be seen that the Iraq war was both illegal and a failure, nothing serious will happen to those who were responsible. thestar.com.my >>Leaders of the United States, Britain and Australia are criminals who have committed crimes against humanity and should be hauled up and tried for war crimes, according to two law professors. Prof Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi of Universiti Teknologi Mara Malaysia said George W. Bush, Tony Blair, John Howard and their accomplices had blatantly disregarded the laws of war. He said the international community must file reports against them for genocide and crimes against humanity with the International Criminal Court for violating the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Prof Francis A. Boyle of Illinois University said Bush’s attempt to assassinate the president of Iraq was an international crime in its own right. “His administration’s war of aggression against Iraq also constituted a crime against peace as defined by the Nuremberg Charter, the Nuremberg Judgement and the Nuremberg Principles as well as by paragraph 498 of US Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956),” he added. According to him, the US government’s installation of the Interim Government of Iraq was nothing more than a “puppet government” under the laws of war. << So much for W "taking responsibility" for faulty intelligence.