by Eric Zuesse for The Saker Blog
The reason why the U.S. Government must be prosecuted for its war-crimes against Iraq is that they are so horrific and there are so many of them, and international law crumbles until they become prosecuted and severely punished for what they did. We therefore now have internationally a lawless world (or “World Order”) in which “Might makes right,” and in which there is really no effective international law, at all. This is merely gangster “law,” ruling on an international level. It is what Hitler and his Axis of fascist imperialists had imposed upon the world until the Allies — U.S. under FDR, UK under Churchill, and U.S.S.R. under Stalin — defeated it, and established the United Nations. Furthermore, America’s leaders deceived the American public into perpetrating this invasion and occupation, of a foreign country (Iraq) that had never threatened the United States; and, so, this invasion and subsequent military occupation constitutes the very epitome of “aggressive war” — unwarranted and illegal international aggression. (Hitler, similarly to George W. Bush, would never have been able to obtain the support of his people to invade if he had not lied, or “deceived,” them, into invading and militarily occupying foreign countries that had never threatened Germany, such as Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia. This — Hitler’s lie-based aggressions — was the core of what the Nazis were hung for, and yet America now does it.)
As Peter Dyer wrote in 2006, about “Iraq & the Nuremberg Precedent”:
Invoking the precedent set by the United States and its allies at the Nuremberg trial in 1946, there can be no doubt that the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a war of aggression. There was no imminent threat to U.S. security nor to the security of the world. The invasion violated the U.N. Charter as well as U.N. Security Council Resolution #1441.
The Nuremberg precedent calls for no less than the arrest and prosecution of those individuals responsible for the invasion of Iraq, beginning with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleez[z]a Rice, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz.
Take, for example, Condoleezza Rice, who famously warned “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” (That warning was one of the most effective lies in order to deceive the American public into invading Iraq, because President Bush had had no real evidence, at all, that there still remained any WMD in Iraq after the U.N. had destroyed them all, and left Iraq in 1998 — and he knew this; he was informed of this; he knew that he had no real evidence, at all: he offered none; it was all mere lies.)
So, the Nuremberg precedent definitely does apply against George W, Bush and his partners-in-crime, just as it did against Hitler and his henchmen and allies.
The seriousness of this international war crime is not as severe as those of the Nazis were, but nonetheless is comparable to it.
On 15 March 2018, Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies headlined at Alternet “The Staggering Death Toll in Iraq” and wrote that “our calculations, using the best information available, show a catastrophic estimate of 2.4 million Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion,” and linked to solid evidence, backing up their estimate.
On 6 February 2020, BusinessInsider bannered “US taxpayers have reportedly paid an average of $8,000 each and over $2 trillion total for the Iraq war alone”, and linked to the academic analysis that supported this estimate. The U.S. regime’s invasive war, which the Bush gang perpetrated against Iraq, was also a crime against the American people (though Iraqis suffered far more from it than we did).
On 29 September 2015, I headlined “GALLUP: ‘Iraqis Are the Saddest & One of the Angriest Populations in the World’,” and linked to Gallup’s survey of 1,000 individuals in each of 148 countries around the world, which found that Iraq had the highest “Negative Experience Score.” That score includes “sadness,” “physical pain,” “anger,” and other types of misery — and Iraq, after America’s invasion, has scored the highest in the entire world, on it, and in the following years has likewise scored at or near the highest on “Negative Experience Score.” For example: in the latest, the 2019, Gallup “Global Emotions Report”, Iraq scores fourth from the top on “Negative Experience Score,” after (in order from the worst) Chad, Niger, and Sierra Leone. (Gallup has been doing these surveys ever since 2005, but the first one that was published under that title was the 2015 report, which summarized the 2014 surveys’ findings.) Of course, prior to America’s invasion, there had been America’s 1990 war against Iraq and the U.S. regime’s leadership and imposition of U.N. sanctions (which likewise were based largely on U.S.-regime-backed lies, though not totally on lies like the 2003 invasion was), which caused massive misery in that country; and, therefore, not all of the misery in Iraq which showed up in the 2015 Global Emotions Report was due to only the 2003 invasion and subsequent military occupation of that country. But almost all of it was, and is. And all of it was based on America’s rulers lying to the public in order to win the public’s acceptance of their evil plans and invasions against a country that had never posed any threat whatsoever to Americans — people residing in America. Furthermore, it is also perhaps relevant that the 2012 “World Happiness Report” shows Iraq at the very bottom of the list of countries (on page 55 of that report) regarding “Average Net Affect by Country,” meaning that Iraqis were the most zombified of all 156 nationalities surveyed. Other traumatized countries were immediately above Iraq on that list. On “Average Negative Affect,” only “Palestinian Territories” scored higher than Iraq (page 52). After America’s invasion based entirely on lies, Iraq is a wrecked country, which still remains under the U.S. regime’s boot, as the following will document:
Bush’s successors, Obama and Trump, failed to press for Bush’s trial on these vast crimes, even though the American people had ourselves become enormously victimized by them, though far less so than Iraqis were. Instead, Bush’s successors have become accessories after the fact, by this failure to press for prosecution of him and his henchmen regarding this grave matter. In fact, the “Defense One” site bannered on 26 September 2018, “US Official: We May Cut Support for Iraq If New Government Seats Pro-Iran Politicians”, and opened with “The Trump administration may decrease U.S. military support or other assistance to Iraq if its new government puts Iranian-aligned politicians in any ‘significant positions of responsibility,’ a senior administration official told reporters late last week.” The way that the U.S. regime has brought ‘democracy’ to Iraq is by threatening to withdraw its protection of the stooge-rulers that it had helped to place into power there, unless those stooges do the U.S. dictators’ bidding, against Iraq’s neighbor Iran. This specific American dictator, Trump, is demanding that majority-Shiite Iraq be run by stooges who favor, instead, America’s fundamentalist-Sunni allies, such as the Saud family who own Saudi Arabia and who hate and loathe Shiites and Iran. The U.S. dictatorship insists that Iraq, which the U.S. conquered, serve America’s anti-Shiite and anti-Iranian policy-objectives. “The U.S. threat, to withhold aid if Iran-aligned politicians occupy any ministerial position, is an escalation of Washington’s demands on Baghdad.” The article went on to quote a “senior administration official” as asserting that, “if Iran exerts a tremendous amount of influence, or a significant amount of influence over the Iraqi government, it’s going to be difficult for us to continue to invest.” Get the euphemisms there! This article said that “the Trump administration has made constraining Iran’s influence in the region a cornerstone of their foreign policy.” So, this hostility toward Iran must be reflected in Iraq’s policies, too. It’s not enough that Trump wants to destroy Iran like Bush has destroyed Iraq; Trump demands that Iraq participate in that crime, against Iraq’s own neighbor. This article said that, “There have also been protests against ‘U.S. meddling’ in the formation of a new Iraqi government, singling out Special Presidential Envoy Brett McGurk for working to prevent parties close to Iran from obtaining power.” McGurk is the rabidly neconservative former high G.W. Bush Administration official, and higher Obama Administration official, who remained as Trump’s top official on his policy to force Iraq to cooperate with America’s efforts to conquer Iran. Trump’s evil is Obama’s evil, and is Bush’s evil. It is bipartisan evil, no matter which Party is in power. Though Trump doesn’t like either the Bushes or Obamas, all of them are in the same evil policy-boat. America’s Deep State remains the same, no matter whom it places into the position of nominal power. The regime remains the same, regardless.
On April 29th, the whistleblowing former UK Ambassador Craig Murray wrote:
Nobody knows how many people died as a result of the UK/US Coalition of Death led destruction of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and, by proxy, Syria and Yemen. Nobody even knows how many people western forces themselves killed directly. That is a huge number, but still under 10% of the total. To add to that you have to add those who died in subsequent conflict engendered by the forced dismantling of the state the West disapproved of. Some were killed by western proxies, some by anti-western forces, and some just by those reverting to ancient tribal hostility and battle for resources into which the country had been regressed by bombing.
You then have to add all those who died directly as a result of the destruction of national infrastructure. Iraq lost in the destruction 60% of its potable drinking water, 75% of its medical facilities and 80% of its electricity. This caused millions of deaths, as did displacement. We are only of course talking about deaths, not maiming.
UK’s Prime Minister Tony Blair should hang with the U.S. gang, but who is calling for this? How much longer will the necessary prosecutions wait? Till after these international war-criminals have all gone honored to their graves?
Although the International Criminal Court considered and dismissed possible criminal charges against Tony Blair’s UK Government regarding the invasion and military occupation of Iraq, the actual crime, of invading and militarily occupying a country which had posed no threat to the national security of the invader, was ignored, and the conclusion was that “the situation did not appear to meet the required threshold of the Statute” (which was only “Willful killing or inhuman treatment of civilians” and which ignored the real crime, which was “aggressive war” or “the crime of aggression” — the crime for which Nazis had been hanged at Nuremberg). Furthermore, no charges whatsoever against the U.S. Government (the world’s most frequent and most heinous violator of international law) were considered. In other words: the International Criminal Court is subordinate to, instead of applicable to, the U.S. regime. Just like Adolf Hitler had repeatedly made clear that, to him, all nations except Germany were dispensable and only Germany wasn’t, Barack Obama repeatedly said that “The United States is and remains the one indispensable nation”, which likewise means that every other nation is “dispensable.” The criminal International Criminal Court accepts this, and yet expects to be respected.
The U.S. regime did “regime change” to Iraq in 2003, and to Ukraine in 2014, and tried to do it to Syria since 2009, and to Yemen since 2015, and to Venezuela since 2012, and to Iran since 2017 — just to mention some of the examples. And, though the Nuremberg precedent certainly applies, it’s not enforced. In principle, then, Hitler has posthumously won WW II.
Hitler must be smiling, now. FDR must be rolling in his grave.
The only way to address this problem, if there won’t be prosecutions against the ‘duly elected’ (Deep-State-approved and enabled) national leaders and appointees, would be governmental seizure and nationalization of the assets that are outright owned or else controlled by America’s Deep State. Ultimately, the Government-officials who are s‘elected’ and appointed to run the American Government have been and are representing not the American people but instead represent the billionaires who fund those officials’ and former officials’ careers. In a democracy, those individuals — the financial enablers of those politicians’ s‘electoral’ success — would be dispossessed of all their assets, and then prosecuted for the crimes that were perpetrated by the public officials whom they had participated in (significantly funded and propagandized for) placing into power. (For example, both Parties’ Presidential nominees are unqualified to serve in any public office in a democracy.)
Democracy cannot function with a systematically lied-to public. Nor can it function if the responsible governmental officials are effectively immune from prosecution for their ‘legal’ crimes, or if the financial string-pullers behind the scenes can safely pull those strings. In America right now, both of those conditions pertain, and, as a result, democracy is impossible. There are only two ways to address this problem, and one of them would start by prosecuting George W. Bush.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
Thank you Eric for a most needed reckoning with imperialist AngloZioNazi barbarism. As regards the punishment of these incorrigible criminals, I do have an idea:
Let them perish in the living hell they were so happy to create in Lybia, Iraq, Palestine with no escape routes or easy life available to them. Leave them at the mercy of the victimized peoples and we shall see these hideous neocon rats in a state of merciless anguish. Will they opt for suicide like Hitler? Like Hitler, their Weltanschau is pure Anti-Life (with unrestrained greed as an extra motivator), but when the victims of imperial rape are coming out to get them, they correctly feel that their ”honour” demands them not to be taken alive by ’the great unwashed’.
Yes, parachute them down into those « enemy » zones, dressed from head to foot in the American flag, with just a waterbottle and a book of matches.
Who will stand up to these AZ gangsters at this late stage? Who? Perhaps post-collapse some sort of Chinese-Russian coalition can be cobbled together to bring them to a proper accounting, but absent that…? Surely not the American people themselves, who still remain enthralled by the myth of their own indispensability at this late date. My, don’t they have a surprise in store!
The corollary to the adage that history is written by the winners is that war criminals are punished only when they lose. Had the German alliance won WW2 the Nuremberg trails would never have happened. That doesn’t mean that war crimes didn’t happen as a result of the Iraq invasion, merely that the winner of that war committed them.
I would be satisfied if they would just cease their destruction, murdering and pillaging of humanity. I will leave the judging and punishing between them and their creator. Things have a way of coming back on a person even in this life. It’s my understanding that those involved in the murder of Czar Nicholas and his family did not go off thereafter to a life of peace and luxury. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for action from an international criminal court. The killers control everything.
Yes, but as long as they’re not stopped, they’ll continue to create suffering. Also, their impunity is no incentive at all for the next generations of warmongers not to carry on in their footsteps.
The only justice the US will face is from IEDs before they leave, and subsequent terrorist vengeance thereafter.
There are not any powers on Earth that can arrest and try the criminals who have started these wars.
It is up to the surviving Libyans, Syrians, Afghanis and Iraqis to deliver justice.
This is the reality of power. The US is too strong and large to treat like some African or Latin American state.
It is never going to happen. They are never going to face some legal system.
As the US has shifted to building new proxies to wage new insurgencies in Iraq and Syria and Libya, and likely, Afghanistan, it is the perfect time for the players who are there already (Iran, Russia, China, Turkey, Egypt, for instance) to make certain the body count of the Hegemon’s most precious troops, not just the proxies, is in the hundreds, not the dozens.
The only thing that changes US policy is unacceptable US citizen losses. The public supports none of these wars. Look at how the US had to hide and obfuscate the casualties from the Iranian missile attack on the US base.
Where the US has bases, then rockets and missiles have to strike. IEDs must be along all the roads they use.
And it would be very helpful if MANPADS appeared in the resistance forces to down the helos they are using to transport their terrorist proxies.
There will be no other “justice”.
It’s sad, it’s sick, but that is the reality. The US government will never leave until all the nations of the ME and South Asia are broken into pieces. This is the plan since the 21st century started. It is what they are doing with CENTCOM.
It’s not about oil or Israel or WMDs. It’s about Power and Hegemony.
You have to mortally wound the beast.
The only nation that understood this and had a strategy and tactics to win was Vietnam. General Giap understood that he had to decimate them in the highlands, the jungles, the swamps and marshes, in the cities and at the airports. With the help of the USSR, he won.
It’s brutal, it’s bloody. But the US is dishing out death, chaos and destruction to men, women and children in these countries and more in Africa. If it is going to pay the price, its troops have to suffer the consequences.
You know who understood this? Russia in WWII. They killed the beast. Putin, also, in the Second Chechen war. You kill the terrorists wherever they are, even in the shitter, he said.
Anything else is a waste of time and sentiment.
Agreed very much; many of the victims and bystanders of hegemonic actions have been far too civilised, even knowing that the empire will change the rules when it suits them.
This is why the USA loves all these pre-emptive policies eg invasion on the basis of a maybe future threat (Vietnam, Iraq, etc, etc..), reserving the right to first nuclear strike, and just about every other justification of aggression – “pre-crimes” in newspeak – precisely because if they do not act first then the other side probably will not either and maybe there will be no shooting war.
Wow, I thought that the author Gerry Fox in his book Climate Change the Work of God has done a masterful job laying out the punishment you Mr. Zuesse desire for America if not the entire world.
“The Lord is slow to anger but great in power; the Lord will not leave the guilty unpunished. His way is in the whirlwind and the storm, and clouds are the dust of his feet.” {Nahum 1:3}
Do you know what a whirlwind is? Tornado’s yes?
“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle? Job 38
What is this God is a military commander with His own weapons?
Does this then explain what occurred with Bravo Company when they were 25 miles from Baghdad that was reported in the news something like this?
As Fox tells it:
“According to a radio newscast I heard while in my car during the Iraq war, a lone Moslem in the city of Baghdad had been screaming, “Hey, look what God is doing to the U.S. Forces.” Upon hearing this, I scoured the newspapers for any news about what this gentleman was talking about and came across a report about Bravo Company when they were some twenty-five miles from Baghdad. They were stopped dead by a series of storms that sprung up out of nowhere. The day had begun calmly enough, clear and sunny, but as they neared the city, they encountered a windstorm so fierce that it obscured the sun, turning the desert black. The wind was strong enough to batter and shake their tanks and personal carriers. After several hours, the sandstorm turned into a hailstorm with accompanying thunder and lightning. It turned the sand into mud, bogging down their vehicles and stalling their advance. They had to deal with the forming of a lake which almost swamped their vehicles.
This is typical of how God Almighty works. The conditions of the Old Testament are literally coming back in the Middle East. Sadly, it took one lone citizen of the city of Baghdad—a Moslem, no less—to recognize it for what it was: an act of Almighty God. He, of all people, could see what others could not. No doubt this was due more to his acclimatization to that environment than his education in matters of the Bible or the Koran (assuming there’s anything in that book regarding the weather). In the desert, no one ever lives to see a hailstorm, in so abrupt a manner and over an army.”
In the bible there are hundreds of scriptures which testify to this being the work of God but I will post one from Isaiah and the other by Job:
“The Lord will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.” (Isaiah 30:30}
“Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail, which I reserve for times of trouble, for days of war and battle?” (Job 38:22–23)
Again God is a military commander with his own weapons?
Does this then explain what occurred at Fort Carson???
https://youtu.be/Gi7GOcwUwQg
Raises some serious questions does it not?
Further to this a more serious question needs asking and that is given the scripture in the Book of Revelation about the coming war against God:
“They will make war against the Lamb, but the Lord will
overcome them because He is Lord of lords and King of
kings-and with him will be His called, chosen and faithful
followers.” {Rev. 17:14}
Mr. Zuesse God is not mocked and neither is faith blind especially with a scripture like this that was written thousands of years ago but only now is it being understood by who is the only writer on the subject period!!!!! Fox fulfills this scripture:
“See, the storm of the Lord will burst out in wrath, a whirlwind swirling down on the heads of the wicked. The anger of the Lord will not turn back until he fully accomplishes the purposes of his heart. In days to come you will fully understand it clearly.” (Jeremiah 23:19–20)
Get it “come to understand clearly” Seems punishment isn’t reserved for just the hereafter.
Industrial pollution what lies we are faced with everyday!
What you describe is what I was thinking when in my comment above I said events have a way of coming back on a person. Sometimes, God just opens the ground and swallows His enemies.
I have no lust for vengeance against anyone lest I be found as bad or worse than they are. So I pray for the best. But if some won’t listen, there is always the dust bowl or the ground opening up. A final meeting will happen sometime after this.
Very precise! The US is the number one thieving criminal , terrorist, dictatorship nation with fake democracy in the world. It instigates wars of aggression against innocent civilians in foreign nations , and funds and props up despotic criminal regimes , dictators around the world. This is accomplished through its fake ngo cia run USAID, NED ect. The US has murdered millions of human beings since WII and continues to commit genocide and war crimes undercover of its fake criminal R2P extra territorial criminal interventions. The Nuremberg trials needs to commence under international law outside of the deeply corrupted criminal International Criminal Court!
The US/UK and their criminal enablers engage in deception in trade, media , commit wars of aggression, poison agriculture and pharmaceutical and vaccines that kill millions around the world etc? Remember the war of lies based on fake narrative of Iraq’s saddam’s WMD, Libya and Gadafi soldiers using Viagra to rape women? Kuwaiti princes posing as some poor girl lying on tv about babies being removed from incubators? And what about the latest Syria’s Assad being falsely accused of chemical attack in Douma with corrupt OPCW producing now thoroughly debunked criminal fake report to instigate war against Syria? Now US is stealing Syria’s oil in broad daylight backed by criminal allies UK, Australia, Israhell etc? What about US training and funding terrorists aka moderate rebels in Altanf illegal US invasion camp in Syria, then unleashing it on Syria and beyond? Lastly, have you seen US destructive wars based on pure lies on Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan , Yemen, Somalia, Congo, South America , Syria etc. etc.?
The whole criminal lot should hang and go straight to hell!! US/UK and their criminal allies are a shame to the world!!
Nuremberg was tragic.
It looked like a great advance for the human race.
But the principles it established were immediately ignored.
I like to add as well that anyone who studies in light of the above scriptures the Dust Bowl in the very heart of the nations bread basket of the 1930’s and what one is faced with is an astonishing pattern of events. As Fox tells it in his other books:
To read and study the events of the years 1934 – 1939 and one is or should be struck immediately with awe at the rather odd events. A pattern of events developed that one can literally follow! The dust storms came in three waves beginning in 1934, 1936 and finally 1939. What is especially astounding though is the year 1935, which witnessed seven and I repeat 7 dust storms in the first four months alone culminating on Black Friday, April 14, Easter again of all things, of a storm that was the most severe of any. A dust storm which occurred
just after 12 noon and this after an especially beautiful day but turned the sky pitch black and was over 200 hundred miles long.
This is truly astounding and of enormous significance bringing up the issue of Divine Communication and the many references in the Old Testament about reaping the whirlwind.
“They have planted the wind and will harvest the
whirlwind. The stalks of grain wither and produce
nothing to eat. And even if there is any grain, foreigners
will eat it.” {Hosea 8:7}
Is this just a coincidence? Not by a long shot!!!! Politically speaking there was a tremendous amount going on and not just in America but throughout the entire world. Consider WW1 was a mere decade over and Europe was now on the verge of yet another and this due by the way to that despicable Treaty of Versailles signed by the Allied powers with this Colonel Edward House being one of its main architects? Really!!!!! John Maynard Keynes was especially horrified by the treaty because of the enormous amount of reparations that it
imposed on Germany. Reparations that they could in no way pay. He correctly predicted that there would be social upheaval even commenting:
‘Men will not always die quietly…In their distress [they]
may overturn the remnants of organization and
submerge civilization itself.’ “But who can say …in what
direction men will seek to escape their misfortunes.” 57
The Dust Bowl accessed October 5, 2017: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl/
The dirty thirties were exactly that and one can go on and on about the history of that time and morality or lack of it rather. But if this Dust Bowl doesn’t ultimately bring clarity to what the bible teaches!!! Weather events always follows mankind’s actions of a sinful nature this the bible clearly spells out:
“The word of the Lord came to me, Son of man, if a
country sins against me by being unfaithful and I stretch
out my hand against it to cut off its food supply and send
famine upon it and kill its men and their animals, even if
these three men Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, they
could save only themselves by their righteousness,
declares the Sovereign Lord.” {Ezekiel 14: 12-14}
Yeah, the 1930’s the decade that saw and changed everything really, yes?
And, O look chem trails, as if that is ever going to be an answer?
“The seriousness of this international war crime is not as severe as those of the Nazis were”
I will ask the next Iraqi person i meet about how they feel about this statement,.,
+ when we take the last 75 years of unjust wars and support for various tyrants, death squads and overthrowing of elected governments etc etc it paints a picture that do not support the above statement at all, it rather makes the US and nazi Germany balance quite equal on the scale of crimes against humanity imho.
I do agree however that we need a Nuremberg trial (for the last 2-3 generations imo) of FUKUS/nato “elite” and military commanders before mankind can even start contemplating a peaceful coexistence and feel justice have been served.
The US is the embodiment of Nazism. It was the template which Nazi Germany emulated. Enslavement, land-grabbing, genocide, institutionalized racism, hysterical flag-waving, ultra-militaristic national megalomania — everything is there.
This proves that Nazism is in fact the spawn of Americanism. Germany has a very rich cultural heritage which is totally absent in the US. The very ugliness of German Nazism betrays its foreign origins: Anglo-American imperialism and, to a lesser degree, Fascist Italy.
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Thanks Eric for an interesting article. I agree that the US & UK war criminals on Iraq must be prosecuted. I am also convinced that the war criminals in question are a product of society. By society I mean collective human psyche not just Us & UK citizenry . Who is going to prosecute a society that remains unmoved whilst war crimes are perpetuated in its name? This is a dilemma. I remember way back in the 70″s that 1 murder case used to cause a great concern in my local the community, but today 50 murder cases cause no concern at all. It seems people are only concerned when they feel threatened “directly”, like in the case of covid19, but not when half a million are killed in Syria or Yemen.
Perhaps
During the Iraq War, when Bush was president of the US and Schroeder was chancellor of Germany, there was a blog called ‘Davids Medienkritik’ (https://medienkritik.typepad.com) that complained about what was perceived to be anti-Americanism in the German media, e.g. der Spiegel. One notable subject of complaint, if I recall correctly, was where a German journalist compared Bush to Hitler. Given what this article describes in detail, said journalist’s comparison, while likely an example of Godwin’s law/reductio ad Hitlerum, isn’t far off, and David would have to hang his head in shame for not seeing it.
America’s ongoing war and occupation of Iraq are only the *tip of the iceberg* of the massive planetary crimes that the “Land of the Free” and its allies (Europe and the Anglophone nations) are guilty of.
America–and its Coalition of the Killing partners—have perpetrated atrocities against many other countries such as:
– Its colonial occupation of Afghanistan based upon the decades-long Big Lie called the War on Terrorism (i.e. War for global American Empire)
– Its proxy terrorist wars against Syria, Libya, and Serbia, where the USA arms and sponsors jihadist groups to destabilize or balkanize these nations.
– Its regime change operations against Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil, and Cuba (to name only a few examples)—disguised behind the lie of “promoting democracy.”
– Its Maximum Barbarism war against Iran involving economic, military, and political pressure to terrorize that nation.
– Its economic siege warfare against North Korea (and many other nations like Iran, Venezuela, Cuba).
– And, most dangerously, its undeclared Hybrid World War against China and Russia.
What is truly warped is that the vast majority of Americans—and pro-Americans around the world—choose to deny the reality of these US crimes and, in Orwellian fashion, glorify America as a Force for Good™ in the world that is threatened by “Evil-Doers.”
Without doubt, America is sicker than any COVID-19 pandemic.
Thus, prosecution of America for war crimes is only the beginning.
American payment of economic war reparations to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and other nations, as well as the ultimate quarantining of the United States are necessary.
I mean it’s all well and good saying ‘the wonderful UN’, but Chapter 1, Article 1, paragraph 2 of the UN Charter was already stained in 1947, when a 70% majority non-Jewish Palestine didn’t get the right to self-determination.
We have lived under the rule of ‘might makes right’ since time immemorial, and really only semi-direct democracy and constitutionally mandated armed neutrality would possible fix this state of affairs.
That these people need to go spend life in jail is evident from the laws they pass. The interpretation of terrorism in the Terrorism Act 2000, in the UK, for example, clearly cuts through the BS, and itself points to all these geopolitical wars to have been terrorism. But Parliament is above the law it seems.
We don’t need a trial for the idiots who made errors in the past. We need a system that stops the idiots in charge making the same decisions in the future. Accountability is part of it, but that is a weak check to the system – any court can be corrupted, at least much easier than a position of neutrality.
As for collective self defense for neutral nations – allow it, but only between de facto neutral nations.
Way to go Eric!
You’ve managed to once again present a compelling case to prosecute the thieves and murderers, residing in the cesspools of London and Washington.
Of course, somehow, certain machinations by the empire, considerably more egregious are omitted. Yet you do bring up Nuremberg….perplexing.
Perhaps, it’s too difficult to research the origins and patterns , chronicling centuries of aggression? If you’re ever able to delve beyond certain western and communist dogma, there’s plenty of revelations waiting for you.
Funny thing, Hitler, just like the Bolsheviks, was primarily funded and supported by those freedom loving people in the U.S., England and Other Western capitols. The main target of the Anglo-Zionist empire has been and will always be those tens of millions of Orthodox Slavs slaughtered, in the last century alone. Would be great if you could write about those victims sometime.
You know, the “other” victims mentioned during the Nuremberg trials, you referenced and the primary victims of the Empire, during the 1990s’.
Iran vs. the U.S.
We in the U.S. declare Iran the #1 state sponsor [really saying cause] of terrorism in the world.
Being objective what has Iran done vs the U.S.?
Iran:
Giving the Gazans rocket technology to fire on Israel’s civilian population. I know many would say this is an armed struggle and not terrorism. The point is that this is the only activity that I would say even comes close to a reasonable definition of one. Targeting civilians is always a war crime regardless of who does it.
Everything else Iran does is within a country’s right to pursue their own perception of self-defense.
U.S. acts of aggression:
Venezuela – here is where I lost it because it is just so gratuitous and unnecessary. We have seized their bank accounts, property, and are depriving them the ability to import food, water, gasoline, and medical services. This alone is worse than anything Iran has done.
Yemen – all of the above and add in sell the Saudis cluster bombs and single handedly enable the KSA’s genocidal campaign to continue.
Iraq – The 2003 war was a war of aggression, our current occupation is illegal, and we currently threaten them with sanctions and to seize their bank accounts yet we accuse Iran of taking over Iraq.
Syria – The Venezuela solution even though the Syrians have never done anything to us.
If one weighs these actions on a scale, Iran vs. the U.S. which side is found lacking? Since our claims lack merit we have to convince ourselves through constant repetition and propaganda but I dare say there is a Judge who is not so easily impressed.
Thanks for your Text. But what’s about all the masses of depleted uranium?