al-Bashir Bush?

I love reading Google News – more than even checking my email. So, this morning as I was looking at World news, I almost gagged on my mouthful of water (trying to cut down on caffeine at work) when I came across this headline, ‘First al-Bashir, next….Bush?’ on aljazeera.net. Yes, I know, Al Jazeera is not exactly known for its accurate and unbiased reporting, but sometimes it is good to know whats out there. This article is written by Mark Levine, a professor of Middle East History at the University of California, Irvine.

He writes,

While the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis – for which Bush, and along with him, the American people who twice elected him, are responsible – is tragic, it should not be understated that the invasion itself was a crime against humanity.

The war and invasion were in clear breach of the UN charter, which prohibits invading other countries except when an attack on one’s sovereign territory is about to occur or has just occurred.

Add to that US torturing of prisoners, illegal secret renditions, and a host of other human rights abuses, and you have a long list of actions that are prohibited and outlawed by US federal law.

Read the entire article here. It does make one stop and think.