Should Bush/Blair be prosecuted for war crimes or was the invasion of Iraq legal?

Answer 1

No crimes were commited, the invasion was legal.

Do yourself a favor, and stop listening to Air America.

Answer 2

Iraq blew up New York City The invasion was legal according to the Geneva Oil Convention.

Because the USA whooped England in 1776 the British have to do what Bush says.

Answer 3

Don't you just love some of the utterly ill informed answers which are put so fervently here? My favourite is 'Iraq blew up the Twin Towers' Really? A missile was launched by the Iraqi Government?! Come on people get your facts straight. According to The Geneva Convention, it is illegal to invade a country to effect regime change (ask yourself why the hysteria over Saddam & the international silence over Mugabe). Bush wanted revenge, doesn't understand that a few Terrorists doth not an entire people make, and convinced Blair that he might as well come and play War with him.
Their actions are criminal and my husband as a Senior Army Officer (and trust me ALL the British Officers I know are ashamed to be involved in this conflict) has spent huge amounts of time in Iraq picking up the lives of the ordinary, decent, Iraqi people, whose lives we so carelessly destroyed on a false premise. The equivalent action might have been carpet bombing the people of Northern Ireland. Now I am sure that as they are not Arab Americans would have been up in arms about that!

Answer 4

Never, the Invasion for sure was not legal , simply there was no specific reason for the invasion ,,, and now there is thousands of dead ppl in Iraq , i wounder who holds responsibility for that ,, i think Bush should hold total responsibility with Blair for sure ,, and they should be Prosecuted for war Crimes ..
i like the idea **brilliant**

Answer 5

you're speaking approximately 2 diverse wars. The Iraqi conflict ended very just about 5 years in the past. the international conflict on terrorism is on going and is led via NATO. we are in all probability the main efficient supporters of NATO and its international conflict on terrorism as a results of fact we've been truthfully attacked. undergo in innovations September eleventh. It grew to become into president bush that lae thid united states of america out of the smoke and assh on the backside of those towers and took this conflict lower back to the place it belonged. notice there has not been yet another attack consisting of this as a results of fact that he took the conflict lower back to Afghanistan and Iraq. Am I the only one that has observed a similar people who complained that we didn’t ‘connect the dots’ in simple terms before 9-11, are actually complaining that we linked the dots in Iraq? - Rush Limbaugh “Time is passing. yet, for the u . s . a ., there'll be no forgetting September the eleventh. we can undergo in innovations each and every rescuer who died in honor. we can undergo in innovations each and every kinfolk that lives in grief. we can undergo in innovations the fireplace and ash, the final telephone calls, the funerals of the little ones. “ - President George W. Bush, November 11, 2001

Answer 6

It was legal. Whether it was the best way to solve the problem with Iraq is another issue, but I'd say that it's about the best thing that could be done given the information available at the time.

Answer 7

Nobody "invaded" Iraq. Before you start wasting 5 points for dumbshi t questions, learn about governments and the methods that a nation takes (in the US senate / congressional, in England parliamentary) prior to taking military action. Learn the procedural steps. And if you don't like the Congressmen who voted FOR any particular thing that crawled up you butt that you don't like, then do not vote for them next go round.

Answer 8

Prosecute them, bomb these, invade that. If the world put as much effort into solutions rather than bloody mindedness, then things might last another generation or so. Should get the worlds kids to run the joint, sure they would do a better job.

Answer 9

in a word - yes

will it ever materialise - no

The U.S and its puppet allies bully the rest of the world. its been this way for years, the likes of bush, clinton, blair.. have their frequent wars to line the pockets of the companies in which they have millions of pounds invested in (united arms, halliburton...) these men are the biggest terrorists living! as for war crimes, they outta be prosecuted for treason as these are the men behind 911, although, they have sucsessfully made others look responsible en-route to achieveing their greedy goals.

Answer 10

The americans done nothing in Rwanda, proabably because it didn't have oil, and a million men, women and children were chopped to pieces with machetes. The american government protects its interests, which is maintaining power, which means oil. If Iraq didn't have oil america would not be there.