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A Bush Insider Cites War Crimes Against His President, VP
BY ROGER ARMBRUST MAY 30 2014

This week, George W. Bush’s former chief counterterrorism officer accused the once-was president and his administration of committing war crimes. Could it lead to some type of legal action? We’ll see.




Richard Clarke–who served a brief stint as Bush’s national coordinator for security and counterterrorism—perked up Amy Goodman’s ears in a Tuesday television interview on Democracy Now! The show’s host, Goodman asked Clarke if he thought Bush, former VP Dick Cheney, and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should be tried for war crimes via attacking Iraq.

I think things that they authorized probably fall within the area of war crimes. Whether that would be productive or not, I think, is a discussion we could all have. But we have established procedures now with the International Criminal Court in The Hague, where people who take actions as serving presidents or prime ministers of countries have been indicted and have been tried. So the precedent is there to do that sort of thing. And I think we need to ask ourselves whether or not it would be useful to do that in the case of members of the Bush administration. It’s clear that things that the Bush administration did — in my mind, at least, it’s clear that some of the things they did were war crimes."

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