Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes

[inheritance]

A Malaysian tribunal has found former US President George W Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of committing crimes against humanity during the Iraq war, Press TV reported.

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal found the former heads of state guilty after a four-day hearing. A seven-member panel chaired by former Malaysian Federal Court judge Abdul Kadir Sulaiman presided over the trial.

The five panel tribunal unanimously decided that the former US and British leaders had committed crimes against peace and humanity, and also violated international law when they ordered the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

The prosecutors at the hearing ruled that the invasion of Iraq was a flagrant abuse of law, and act of aggression which amounted to a mass murder of the Iraqi people.

“Bush and Blair are found guilty under the same law that applied to the Nazis after the end of the World War II. So, they are international (war) criminals guilty of Nuremberg crimes against peace; and they should be prosecuted by any state in the world that gets a hold of them. We will continue our efforts to bring Bush and Blair to justice and put them in jail,” Francis Boyle, an international law expert and prosecutor, told Press TV.

The judges in the verdict said that that the United States, under the leadership of Bush, forged documents to claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Bush and Blair were tried in absentia by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal at the end of the hearing. The participants also demanded that the findings of the tribunal be made available to members of the Rome Statute and that the names of the two former officials be entered in the register of war criminals.

“There is also a recommendation that this (the findings) be circulated to the states because all states have universal jurisdiction. Therefore, whenever Bush or Blair appear within their shores there is an obligation on the international law to commit these international war criminals through the justice system,” Gurdial Singh Nijar, a prosecutor, told Press TV.

Lawyers and human rights activists in Malaysia have described the verdict issued by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal against Bush and Blair as “a landmark decision.”

They say that they would lobby the International Criminal Court to charge the pair for war crimes.

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal is scheduled to hold a separate hearing next year on charges of torture linked to the Iraq war against former US officials including ex-Vice President **** Cheney, former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld and ex-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

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http://presstv.com/detail/211548.html

Edited November 28, 2011 by inheritance

[reveldog]

as much as i would like to see them both go to prison , this is a waste of time on there part because it will never happen

[John in Kuwait]

Nothing they did is even comparable to what Nazi Germany did.

These people have way too much time on their hands.

[okane]

What a crock! Maybe it is time to "circle the wagons" and cut off all financial aid to all but our friends. Saudia .. cut. Mayliasia ... CUT.

[Shabibilicious]

I guess that narrows the field, as far as, vacation hot spots go. Looks like Aruba this year.

GO RV, then BV

[The Machine]

As much as I dont like Bush or Blair ....... this is a waste of time, nothing is ever going to come of this.

[yota691]

as much as i would like to see them both go to prison , this is a waste of time on there part because it will never happen

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lol your comment is so UnAmerican!

[yota691]

I guess you folks are for Handcuffs an read them there Rights, appoint them Public Defenders. Not me I lost my Buddy in Beirut, an the Americans today are alot safer from abroad today then they have ever been. And this fight still not over! You talk that junk, Look around ya.

[sportfisher]

Can they please just take Obama instead ?

[Luigi1]

All talk & no power. Let's see them com after Bush & Blair.

[TFK]

as much as i would like to see them both go to prison , this is a waste of time on there part because it will never happen

Ha, Malaysia... that bastion of democracy. These people were overrun by the herds of crazed, marauding arab muslims hundreds of years ago. To think that their kangaroo courts could dish out any sort of real justice is a fv<k1ng joke!

I'll never understand you socialists. These crazy muslims would slit your throat in the blink of an eye. The only reason the muslims are in bed with western socialists is to use you to get at the rest of us that have a brain!

I'm amazed by all the Bush haters on DV's. You people make me want to puke! Your O'bumma is the real cause of the worlds pain right now!

The new cry of the western socialist... "Hurray for sharia law, bring it on"