Meanwhile, over in Malaysia...

[derby378]

I can't believe I missed this - the news is over a week old by now, but check this out if you haven't heard about this yet:

Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia

In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were yesterday (Fri) found guilty of war crimes.

Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia.

The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They included testimony from British man Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was tortured in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2012/05/12/bush-convicted-of-war-crimes-in-absentia/

[BlueToTheBone]

1. yeah, it was posted here a week or so ago.

sort of non news.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. If we offered George Bush an all expenses paid vacation in balmy Kuala Lumpur

I wonder if he'd even know where that is and if he would get on the plane.

[derby378]

3. Is there still bad blood between Herr Decider and Darth Cheney?

Something tells me Dick would stand by and wave while Junior boarded the plane...

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. It's a private tribunal, not part of the state

and it did the same for Bush and Blair last year: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur_War_Crimes_Commission

It's just symbolic. Not as symbolic, if you ask me, as the UN Secretary General saying the invasion of Iraq was illegal - but nothing came of that.