Bush said last Friday [October 11, 2002:] “With tonight's vote in the United States Senate, America speaks with one voice. The Congress has spoken clearly to the international community and the United Nations Security Council. Saddam Hussein and his outlaw regime pose a grave threat to the region, the world, and the United States. Inaction is not an option; disarmament is a must."

But George Bush Senior certainly will have advised Junior to be cautious. George Senior was indicted in 1991, came close, but for no established Court of Law with the actual jurisdiction to enforce it.

Both realise, for Junior, there is now the ICC.

On May 11, 1991, after the Gulf War singed to its conclusion, Ramsey Clark, who served as U.S. Attorney General in the administration of Lyndon Johnson, convened over an International War Crimes Tribunal complaint charging: George Bush, Dan Quayle, James Baker, Richard Cheney, William Webster, Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf and a handful of others with “Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity and Other Criminal Acts and High Crimes in Violation of the Charter of the United Nations, International Law, the Constitution of the United States”.

At a hearing in New York, the tribunal heard former Attorney General Ramsey Clark outline a 19-point indictment of the U.S. government's conduct in the Gulf War. For seven hours eyewitnesses who had travelled to Iraq during and following the war presented evidence on the extensive and deliberate destruction of Iraq's infrastructure.

Compelling video testimony was shown. Images of destroyed neighbourhoods, shrapnel and burn victims, dehydrated and undernourished children in hospitals lacking electricity and necessary drugs were displayed in the photo exhibit.