3 WAR Criminals: Bush, Cheney and Blair still on free feet! Why is Blair not behind The Hague’s bars?

OK, the tenth anniversary of the worst foreign blunder Uncle Sam has ever committed has come and gone, but the post-invasion headlines remain the same:

Explosions in Baghdad kill dozens and wound scores
—International Herald Tribune, 3/20/13

For Iraqis, no time for reflection, only desperation
— International Herald Tribune, 3/19/13

Iraq War Intelligence Was a Lie
—Daily Telegraph, 3/18/13

No Country Since 1945 Has Suffered More
—Daily Telegraph, 3/18/13

Ten years on, death still stalks Baghdad
—Daily Telegraph, 3/14/13
“Bush, Cheney, and Blair belong behind bars for waging war against a sovereign nation that had absolutely no involvement with 9/11.”
(art. from Taki Magazine 31 march 2013)

I could go on. The only victor has been Israel, whose nuclear domination of the region has been assured once the great bluffer Saddam was removed. Iraq is now a very weak nation split in three, with the Kurds up north, the Sunnis around the middle, and the Shiites down south. Uncle Sam spent four trillion dollars and is now broke. Nearly five thousand young Americans lost their lives and at least 30,000 were wounded, some grievously, blind, without limbs, and needing hospitalization for the rest of their lives. Iraqi casualties were estimated to be as high as one million, a number that is dwarfed by the number of Iraqis who became displaced.

And in the midst of this tragedy, that smirking criminal shyster Dick Cheney is given a whole hour by HBO to play Edith Piaf’s signature song, “I Regret Nothing.” Of course he regrets nothing; decency and honesty are not in his vocabulary. After all, didn’t Cheney the brave warrior avoid the Vietnam draft by taking five deferments? As they say, only in America folks, only in America.

And it gets worse. My friend Russell Seitz, a Harvard professor—please don’t hold it against him, he’s a very nice person—sent me a picture of a nine-foot bronze colossus of George W. presently adorning downtown Fushë-Krujë in Albania. Russell did not specify why the bronze statue went up, but I can guess. It’s because W. facilitated Albania’s criminal classes to invade Europe when he handed Kosovo to the drug gangs that rule it. It is certainly not for his heroics in Vietnam, because like Cheney, W. stayed safely behind the war zone.

The third war criminal of the gang is Tony Blair, a con man whose phony smile is the envy of card sharks in Las Vegas. What troubles me about Blair is his ability to flit around the world in private jets giving speeches for a minimum of one hundred grand without a worry in the world that he will be picked up and flown to The Hague by the International Criminal Court as the war criminal that he is. Bush and Cheney are safe because Uncle Sam withdrew from the ICC Treaty, but Britain hasn’t, so why has Blair not been arrested? That’s an easy one to answer. There are rules for African war criminals and rules for Serb nationalists, and the rest don’t count. Bush, Cheney, and Blair belong behind bars for waging war against a sovereign nation that had absolutely no involvement with 9/11. They belong behind bars for having ordered the invasion of Iraq by using false evidence of Saddam’s WMD.

But I’m just whistling Dixie, as Bing Crosby used to say. None of the three criminals will ever face jail, which is a crime in itself.

About fifteen years ago I attended the 90th birthday party of Lord Shawcross in Sussex, England. His son William, a good friend, placed me near his father, who was the lead British prosecutor in the Nuremberg Trials following the Nazi defeat. I asked the great man who was the most interesting person among the Allies and the Nazis during the yearlong trial. “Hermann Göring by a long shot,” said his lordship. As Göring was never implicated in atrocities, I asked Shawcross why he got the death penalty. “For waging aggressive war,” he answered. I then asked who was being more aggressive: the Allies bombing Dresden, Hamburg, and Berlin (killing an estimated half-million old men, women, and children), or Göring’s Luftwaffe bombing London and Coventry (killing an estimated 26,000 in four years). The good Lord was not best pleased with me, but such are the joys of having double standards.

Yes, dear readers, Ieng Sary—the Cheney to Pol Pot’s Bush—died in his bed two weeks ago. Pol Pot and Ieng Sary murdered more than a third of Cambodians and imprisoned and tortured an estimated two-thirds of the population. Sary was allowed to own two large houses and live it up until the end. The equivalent of Cambodian neocons made that possible. Our very own Fifth Columnist neocons—the Kristols, Abramses, Wolfowitzes, Perles, Feiths, and other such scummy types—are still being listened to by naïve Americans instead of being silenced for their criminal propagandizing leading up to war. Der Stürmer was shut down after the Nazi defeat. The Weekly Standard is still going. Go figure, as they say.

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