Bush, Blair Guilty of War Crimes

[Matilda]

"Illegal weapons of mass destruction have not only been found in
Iraq but have been used against Iraqis and have even killed US
troops.

"But Washington and its allies have tried to cover up this outrage
because the chief culprit is the US itself, argue American and other
experts trying to expose what they say is a war crime."

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/B2E2DF9B-1E0C-43F4-BBF6-074C1367E27C.htm

I know this has been raised on DU before, and some don't believe
that depleted uranium is the cause of birth defects - I have no
scientific knowledge myself, but I've read much about D.U. -
not least from Veterans' groups in the U.S., and if the horrific
cancers and birth defects aren't caused by depleted uranium, they're
sure caused by something out of the ordinary, and it's connected
with the two wars against Iraq.

Viewing photos of some of the horrific birth defects of Iraqi babies
was one of the major reasons why I was against the current war.
Even if Saddam had possessed WMD, I couldn't see the point in adding
to the problem by releasing more of our own. Nothing can justify
this assault against the most innocent; it's heartbreaking to
imagine what the mothers have gone through.

If Saddam's supposed possession of WMD was a good enough reason
to invade Iraq, then surely the US/UK deployment of depleted
uranium is a good enough reason to charge Bush and Blair with war
crimes.

[sweetheart]

1. Yes, 10,000 dead civilians makes the case

Then thousand people with no affiliation to saddam or the USA were
killed by random acts of violence (mostly arial bombing) carried out
by our mass murderer in chief and his ally in poodle-collar.

These people speak from the grave demanding their murderers be held
to account. I am for a war crimes trial, but no need to even start
with D.U. There are mountains of bodies, and were we to have each
its own murder trial, the magnitude of our criminal politicians
becomes appearant.

And for the daughter of one of those many dead, who in later years
studies and prepares to one day strike back in vengance for her
murdered loved ones, by detonating a nuclear bomb in London, while
a friend detonates one in washington.

This war has only begun, and by how we treat our war criminals, the
next round of revenge attacks will be focused.

[Matilda]

2. I feel for all the dead, especially for the children, and their parents.

But newborns are so beautiful, and so vulnerable, that to see a
new baby born with defects so hideous that a viable life is
impossible reduces me to tears. To deliberately deploy a weapon
that can cause this is the greatest crime I can think of.

[sweetheart]

5. life is life

The human right to life has no age limit. Newborns, artists, poets,
fathers, mothers, grandfathers, teenage assholes, baathists, whatever.

There is no right to take life, and those who presume the world
better with 10,000+ civilians dead, are sick buggers indeed.

It was all so unnecessary. So instead of your kids having a new
school, we have a war-mass murder that not only is a crime of its
own right, but takes 1000 of our own kids fighting a war to
perpetrate the crime.

It sickens me to no end, this crimininal war, and i fear the worst
if he should subvert the november poll. Bush in 2005 means at least
50,000 more murdered civilians "somewhere".

[FloridaPat]

3. 30,000 + dead civilians. Right after the initial invasion, a group

went around Iraq and gathered the names of the dead. They had 30,000 before the US government told them to stop counting. You can bet it';s a lot more now.

33,000 Iraqi and Afghanistan US soldiers have applied to the VA for benefits. But yet the DO says only 6,000 injured in Iraq while the NYT says it's closer to 26,000. And so far not one injured person had died - at least according to Bush.

Why is everyone putting up with all the lies.

[Matilda]

4. Iraqbodycount currently puts the toll at a possible max of nearly 15,000.

If anything, they err on the side of caution. And that's only
civilian deaths, which they take care in verifying by very strict
criteria.

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/