THE HAGUE – George W. Bush could one day be the International Criminal Court's next target.
David Crane, an international law professor at Syracuse University, said the principle of law used to issue an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir could extend to former US President Bush over claims officials from his Administration may have engaged in torture by using coercive interrogation techniques on terror suspects.
Crane is a former prosecutor of the Sierra Leone tribunal that indicted Liberian President Charles Taylor and put him on trial in The Hague.
Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice Programme at Human Rights Watch, said the al-Bashir ruling was likely to fuel discussion about investigations of possible crimes by Bush Administration officials.
Congressional Democrats and other critics have charged that some of the harsh interrogation techniques amounted to torture, a contention that Bush and other officials rejected.
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This is a big problem as right now the Sudan President is charged with killing 32,000 people and displacing thousands. Bush killed 1 million Iraq men/woman/children and displaced millions as he illegally invaded Iraq based on lies. Bush kidnapped innocent people and tortured them. He tortured and killed men/woman/children as the US paid 2500 dollars to the families of each person we killed.
Hard to believe the guy who killed more than Saddam will never be held accountable in a court room.
That's not the way American justice is supposed to work:(
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