Why aren't Bush and Cheney in prison?

[Jefferson23]

88. No, it is not that simple for Bush, nor Cheney and Blair.

It was the pretext of WMD against a sovereign nation to begin and the charges continue to mount from there
going forward.

Let us put the politics of prosecuting a US president aside for a moment, and our seriously deep nationalism and
look at the crimes against humanity.

Number one, we did this to this country without provocation, we waged a war of aggression. That in and
of itself becomes examined and Bush et al does not get a legal pass by claiming he thought he was
acting in the best interest of his country.

As a direct result of that aggression we saw the crimes of Abu Ghraib, there are approximately
one million dead people, the crimes of Fallujia, there were civilian massacres. We went ahead of
what the UN Security Council stated, send the inspectors to go to Iraq and then we'll
make recommendations based on that report..we did not wait. Within that decision we know
they had no intention of waiting because they did not want any interference.

As a nation, we signed the UN Charter, the essence of which no nation can use armed force without the permission of the U.N. Security Council. We can use force in connection with self-defense, yet, we can't use force in anticipation of self-defense.

The UNSC resolutions dating back to the Gulf War as an excuse as GW Bush claimed is bullshit.

The above represents state sponsored war crimes, and I will remind you of officials who quit in the
lead up to the invasion ( UK officials ) because they knew it was an illegal invasion. The UK is a
signer of the ICC, so these individuals were not going to take the chance.

Remember here too, that although I am no fan of Justice Kennedy, what he wrote about the
case..Hamdan v Rumsfeld is very important. He says, essentially, that Bush tried to ignore
the Geneva Convention and in doing so, may have opened a window to be prosecuted
for war crimes. That is a sitting conservative on the SCOTUS saying that.

The politics of this situation is a whole other problem...one that will likely
save their asses..unfortunately.