‘Western Leaders Are War Criminals’

The former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, has echoed calls for Western leaders to be charged with war crimes over the illegal invasion of Iraq.

Speaking at Imperial College in London Mahathir, who was in office from 1981 to 2003, singled out US President George Bush, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australia’s former prime minister John Howard as he wants to see them tried “in absence for war crimes committed in Iraq”.

The event was incredibly well attended with over 450 people and 200 more had to be turned away.

Among the mountain of war crimes Western leaders are guilty of include:-

The illegal use of napalm and other chemical weapons

Intentionally torturing and abusing detainees

Blocking aid convoys

Killing unarmed civilians, including shooting into family homes

Western leaders are also guilty of many other violations of the Geneva Convention, the Charter of the United Nations, the Nuremberg Charter, International Law and the Constitution of the United States, including crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.

Mahathir Mohamad’s statement appears to be valid as the International Criminal Court defines the following as international crimes:

(a) Crimes against Peace:

Namely, planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing:

(b) War Crimes:

Namely, violations of the laws or customs of war. Such violations include, but not be limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity:

(c) Crimes against Humanity:

Namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.

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Personally I have no problem sending Bush, Cheney, members of Congress and who ever else behind bars. In our lifetime I'm almost certain this will happen. If there is any time of justice left in this world.

Please, Mohamad is just another radical muslim leader who enjoys flapping his gums against anything and everything American or Israeli. It's hilarious to see him even attempt to disparrage us for "war crimes" (which is a joke regardless of who makes the claim) when he's the same man who once said that human righst must take a backseat to Asian financial strength. He's a butcher and, just like the Iranian president's little comments 2 weeks ago, his opinion means nothing. Small, small men with very little power that extends beyond the fear their own citizens have over them with very large mouths. I laugh at them both.

Originally posted by Master_Wii
Personally I have no problem sending Bush, Cheney, members of Congress and who ever else behind bars. In our lifetime I'm almost certain this will happen. If there is any time of justice left in this world.

acturally, there is no such thing as justice in this world.

otherwise, there won't be millions of iraqi dead while the white house still talking about human rights and american style democracy. there won't the genocidal of indian while the killer suddenly became the world largest human rights supporter.