By Gethin Chamberlain, Sunday Telegraph
Tony Blair faces the prospect of an International Criminal Court investigation for alleged coalition war crimes in Iraq.
The court’s chief prosecutor told The Sunday Telegraph that he would be willing to launch an inquiry and could envisage a scenario in which the Prime Minister and American President George W Bush could one day face charges at The Hague.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo urged Arab countries, particularly Iraq, to sign up to the court to enable allegations against the West to be pursued. Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations said that his country was actively considering signing up.
America has refused to accept the court’s jurisdiction and is unlikely to hand over any of its citizens to face trial. However, Britain has signed up and the Government has indicated its willingness to tackle accusations of war crimes against a number of British soldiers.
George Bush is making similar moves as did Julius Ceasar when he decided to take Rome by force and become a dictator, thus ending Rome’s 500 yrs. as a republic. We have often heard that, “He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.” I believe that Bush, Chenny, Rice, Rumsfeld, Blair, and other heads of states should be tried and prosicuted for war crimes as well as crimes against humanity. Our congress is complicit in these crimes as well, and should face the same consequinces as those mentioned above. England has agreed to turn over to The Hague those guilty of such crimes. The United states should do the same. Under the present dictatorship, with congress complicit in it, I gravely fear for this country’s future.