"Campaigners accuse leaders of 'war crimes'"

[mrfrapp]

The governments of Tony Blair and George Bush have been charged with war crimes by a distinguished group of anti-war campaigners, who are calling for an investigation by the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, into breaches of international law.

Harold Pinter, the playwright, Tony Benn, the former Labour MP, Michael Mansfield QC and Professor Richard Dawkins were among the signatories to 28 charges against the Blair and Bush administrations, covering ministers, officials and generals who were a party to the decisions that led to war on Iraq and the chaos in its aftermath.

The charges were sent to Mr Annan and the Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, last night, with a demand that the investigation should go beyond the Prime Minister and the US President to all those involved in setting the policy decisions that led to abuses including the ill-treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article331780.ece

[greiner3]

1. I tried to do this on the eve of the Iraq invasion;

I went to the Hague court's web site trying to get a charge of war crimes going against bushco but the website said that any charges had to come from a recognized world country. Since most of my ancestors came from Germany I sent a nice 2 or 3 paragraph plea for the same to the German embassy to the US in Washington. Unfortunately, and expectedly, I received no reply. I'm glad I at least tried though.

[drduffy]

2. Maybe Chavez would be willing.....