Dick Cheney Should, And Will, Be Prosecuted As War Criminal: Retired International Court Judge [View all]

[KamaAina]

http://samuel-warde.com/2016/04/dick-cheney-will-prosecuted/

Thomas Buergenthal, who served as a judge at the International Court of Justice at the Hague for ten years until his retirement in 2010, is considered by many the world’s most distinguished living specialist in international human rights law.

Newsweek reports that, a natural diplomat, Buergenthal “occasionally finds that his instinct for tact deserts him.” During an interview last July with Robert Chalmers, he described George W. Bush as “an ignorant person who wanted to show his mother he could do things his father couldn’t.”

Turning to former Vice-President Dick Cheney and the possibility of his prosecution as a war criminal at the International Criminal Court, Burgenthal stated that “I think – yes – that it will happen.”

(S)ome of us have long thought that Cheney, and a number of CIA agents who did what they did in those so-called black holes (overseas torture centres) should appear before the ICC. We (in the USA) could have tried them ourselves. I voted for Obama but I think he made a great mistake when he decided not to instigate legal proceedings against some of these people. I think – yes – that it will happen.

No, we couldn't have! It was always off the table!