White House legal teams and scores of diplomats have been working around the clock moving to erase the ICC risk from the Iraqi war equation. The stand off is an unexpected blur on the White House, West Wing, Situation Room’s war map. It’s the unknown factor in a game of Chess where fears are harboured that international justice could return a verdict of guilty, placing George W. Bush alongside Slobodan Milosevic and Klaus Barbie in the records of history. America will refuse to allow its President to be tried like Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon.
Bush won't have it.
With a groundswell of anti-USA fervour generating around the globe, President Bush has much to worry about.
Domestically, support for war has been syphoned off with news that the US economy is gravely ill and that the costs of war will deliver hardship to “The American People”.
Bush won't have it.
With a groundswell of anti-USA fervour generating around the globe, President Bush has much to worry about.
Domestically, support for war has been syphoned off with news that the US economy is gravely ill and that the costs of war will deliver hardship to “The American People”.
The United Nations General Assembly is fast becoming a hot-bed of former conservatism. It has forced the Security Council to hear views of the “wider U.N. membership” on Wednesday [New York time]. Certainly, a War resulting from eventual Iraq non-compliance of U.N. weapon inspection resolutions would likely be tolerated. Pre-emptive air-strikes on Baghdad committed by the United States, Britain, Italy and Turkey would be another matter.
And pre-emptive ‘defence’ is the stated plan. It’s stated in the National Security Strategy blueprint issued by Bush on September 23 New Zealand time. (See… National Security Strategy of the United States of America.)
And pre-emptive ‘defence’ is the stated plan. It’s stated in the National Security Strategy blueprint issued by Bush on September 23 New Zealand time. (See… National Security Strategy of the United States of America.)