The White House War Criminals

Its not enough to just Impeach Bush but all the war criminals in the White House should be indicted. So says an article on Rumsfeld in the Guardian Weekly. Resignation is too easy, indictment for war crimes is the way to go.

By violating both the letter and the spirit of international law regarding the treatment of detainees, Rumsfeld effectively turned himself into a war criminal. The fact that terrorists stand outside international norms of combat and democratic oversight is what separates them from us. Erase that distinction and the war on terror morphs into a war of terror. The question at this point is not whether Rumsfeld should resign, Joanne Mariner, of Human Rights Watch, told Progressive magazine. Its whether he should be indicted.

Unfortunately for Americans, and the rest of the World, the Democrats being the asses they are lack the intestinal fortitude or political cumption to do this.. Democrats pledge probes of Bush, not impeachment Because Presidential candidates Hillary and Kerry voted for war.

A war that is now opposed by the majority of Americans and for good reasons, see this video. And unlike Viet Nam the majority still support their troops. That is why the White House must be tried for War Crimes.

Anti-war sentiments blend with pro-military culture
by Matt Stearns

Returning from a combat tour of Vietnam in 1969, U.S. Army Capt. Robert H. Scales Jr. stepped off the plane and into a torrent of abuse.

It got so bad that the West Point graduate and Silver Star winner went to an airport bathroom and changed out of his uniform before catching another flight home.

"People started banging on me about the fact that I was a soldier. ... How could I be a part of a military that was so evil, that was doing such evil things," recalled Scales, now a retired major general and a military historian.

Thirty-seven years later, public support for another distant war, this one in Iraq, is waning and some observers are drawing parallels to Vietnam.

But there is one dramatic difference between the two wars: The overwhelmingly positive view of the military and its troops among Americans - even among those who oppose the war...

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