George Bush Is A War Criminal: Why Didn’t The ICC Issue An Arrest Warrant Against Him?

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Representational image: Wikipedia. Saddam Hussein being pulled from his hideaway in Operation Red Dawn, 13 December 2003
Why didn’t the ICC issue an arrest warrant against President Bush, one of the worst war criminals in history?

As the unscripted tragedy of the horrendous war in and over Ukraine unfolds with no sign of any end, we mark, sorrowfully, the twentieth anniversary of President George Bush Jr.’s  ill-starred invasion and occupation of Iraq that started on 19-20 March 2003.

We start by mentioning two commonly accepted wrong beliefs in this regard. First, the aggression against Iraq did not start in March 2003. By July 2002, the CIA’s Special Activities Division (SAD) started sending in its forces to Iraq. They, along with the Kurds, known as Peshmerga, formed the  Northern Iraq Liaison Element (NILE), whose task was to prepare the ground for the invasion.

Historically, Washington  has maintained a hostile posture toward Iraq even after the liberation of Kuwait in 1991, not to mention the genocidal sanctions imposed on Iraq. When asked about the UNICEF assessment that about 500,000 children might have died as a result of such sanctions, the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and a future Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, infamously responded in the famous programme 60 Minutes:



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