Should Blair and Bush be charged as war criminals over the carnage they have brought to Iraq.?

Question

Remember back a couple of years and Bush and Blair used the pretext of Saddam having WMDs as an excuse to invade Iraq. Only trouble was the UN said he didn`t and time has proved that he hadn`t had anything serious since the mid nineties. But hey, UN approval for the war to be legal wasn`t going to stop these two, they just invaded anyway. So here we are in 2006 and every night we get more images of our soldiers being killed and horrifically injured for a war that has no purpose. The people of Iraq are living in squalid conditions and the constant fear of death from death squads. Iraq is now crying out for a strong man to take control of the country, you know one who has the unquestionable respect of the military and the police and is feared by the populace. You know, just like the guy we illegally deposed to start all this mess. The only people winning out of all this are the muslim fanatics who have great recruiting material. So shouldn`t those responsible be brought to account?

Bogbrush get real. The best information available was telling them that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction, Al qaeda was not seriously active in Iraq, yet still they invaded without legal authority to do so. As for the happy images of Iraq, where are they? I don`t know what the US channels show of this bloody conflict, but in the UK we get to see suicide car bombs that have gone off in market places or in crowded streets. Just today 100 people are kidnapped and most likely executed for the crime off being born the wrong religion. If this is freedom, what is hell? As for claim about securing the oil for the west, is that not what the war was probably about. Securing massive wealth for US multi nationals to feast over

Answer 1

i firmly believe that both of them and olmert should be hung up in a court for crimes against humanity, as well as war crimes. legally they have broken the geneva convention many times over... but because it won't happen, i fear the arabs will take the matter into their own hands and deliver a judgement day like one we have never seen.
i've just read some of the other answers and i am appaulled at the ignorance!!!! they still think that bush and blair have delivered a better solution to saddam for the people of iraq! clearly they are not reading the news!

Answer 2

They should certainly be made to make restitution to the people once our Troops are pulled out.

The problem with that is that -
a) the tax payers will lose out
b) there will be a lot of private business people out there ready to make a bundle out of regeneration and renovation of the Country
c) The INNOCENT Iraqi people should apply for UK/USA grants to cover thier immediate losses - ie homes, then apply for compensation directly from George Bush and Tony Blair for thier suffering during the conflict once Troops moved in and started bombing.

If the Military were allowed to be able to get on with the job in hand without interference of politicians and media - a job for which they have been well trained for and paid for by our hard-earned taxes - the "Muslim fanatics" would soon be brought under control, and the Country could start to rebuild itself properly - with a National Army and Police Force that has been properly trained.

Answer 3

Allied forces invaded Iraq because Saddam failed to comply with UN demands. Saddam and the Iraqi people were told what the consequences would be and they chose invasion over compliance. Saddam had WMDs and would have been doing what Iran is doing now (going nuclear) had we not invaded. Iran needs their *** kicked as well but Americans have become too soft and wimpy. We gave up more than 400,000 lives to the white Europeans in WWII alone, but now we moan and complain over the loss of three thousand volunteers that volunteered to stand up against tyranny. We will lose many more thousands to stand up against Iraq and Korea or we will lose millions on the homefront. Try Bush and Blair for war crimes only if you're willing to hang for treason when withdrawl brings terror attacks to San Francisco.

Answer 4

YES YES YES well said.bush and Blair both lied about wmd in
Iraq.They ignored the UN and levelled it anyway(THESE ARE FACTS)imagine for one second,if say china had done this it
would of been OK(don't mention Tibet)no it would not their
would be an uproar.double standards rule in this world.If
leaders blatantly lied about this,what else will they lie about.
whole thing is about the black gold and peak oil

next make friends with Iran,don't they have some oil George.

Answer 5

With Saddams kill tally approaching two million, and not including the unknown number of Kurds who simply "disappeared", the fact that he tested chemical weapons on his own people, and a fine example of Iraqi incarceration during his regime would be the "coffin-prison" where people were kept in steel mortuary boxes, tortured and raped daily until they either confessed or died.....I would ask you to seriously consider the fact that we never needed our imaginary weapons of mass destruction to invade Iraq. Perhaps the better question to ask is whether or not the CIA director who was responsible for the military coup that put this tyrant into power and President George Bush SR, who stood idly by in 1991 while the Iraqi rebellion was crushed because he was afraid that the rebellion would bring the Shi'ite leadership into power, thus strengthening Iraqi ties with Iran, should be the ones prosecuted for war crimes. And while we are at it, lets take a swing at everyone in the world who knew these atrocities were going on and did nothing to stop it. Yes, Iraq is imbalanced right now, because the people of Iraq see free nations like America and just expect their world to be like ours. They never achieved democracy on their own, and have never had to sacrifices to prevent political and religious warfare on their own. The two primary religious sects have never made any attempt to meet on middle ground. Each thinks their way is the only way, when in fact the only way these people will survive is if they stop basing all their decisions on religion and start basing them on economic and political survival.

Answer 6

Yes I do and as someone before me said, most of the answers before me are full of crap.
They knew that he did not have the weapons that they said otherwise they would not have gone in with an army so unprepared. If they did they should be had for that. Saddam had nothing to do with the terrorists of 9/11 any belonging to al Queda he is of a different group and had just completed several years at war with them, with the help of the USA. This country (UK) is not supposed to go to war with any country without a threat to ourselves.
If they had reason to go into Iraq because of Saddam killing people that means it is OK to go into UK/USA to take out the killers of all those Iraqi's.
people here don't understand tribalism, maybe it takes a dictator to rule them. Democracy is not working. I would like to bet all of you warmongers that when our forces pull out, the county will only be held together by a dictator.
If anything we should sort out Zimbabwe as we caused that and we watch as people die every day.
To the guy in the military police I would say. Just read that crap that you wrote and see why people want to bomb your country.
You give Americans a bad name. Do you write stories for your movie industry?
What kind of democracy keeps people in prison (Cuba) without trial. Bush should be charged for that alone.
By the way I am British and White in case you think that am Palistinian as someone else said.

Answer 7

confident he will ought to i'm no longer anti conflict although i'm against the invasion of Iraq located on the Lies that Tony Blair &Co recommended. uk /u . s . allegedly have the friendly intelligence amassing in the international MI5/MI6/CIA/SIS/FBI so if the Iraqi's had WMD why have been they no longer able to pinpoint the places and direct those inspectors directly to them. could u.s. enable a russian delegation of inspectors into all their cyber web web pages of WMD i doubt it. How could u.s. and Britain have confidence if the troops of distant places government pulled down the statues of their leaders. The BBC gave Tony's spin on Saddam's crack royal safeguard the place are they if the existed there ought to have been somewhat some individuals killed that the united kingdom u . s . have not admitted to killing grew to become into it good to seek for out his sons execute them and parade their bodies could blair like this to take place to his kinfolk he grew to become into purely as vast a tyrant as Saddam in his very own skill

Answer 8

Seriously? "The carnage they have brought to Iraq".....?

Seriously?

Do you know anything about what Iraq was like before we got there? I'm not saying we made it better or anything but Carnage had already taken up permenant residence in that $hit hole.
You want to paint this big bloody picture of Bush and Blair pulling out people's insides with their teeth- you go right ahead. I'm a veteran of the Iraq war and a proud member of the US Military- I protect your right to be a smuck, so you have at it.
You want to weep for the children of Iraq and their living conditions? You can do that to. I fully support your right to be a bleeding heart.
Hell, you can even use the our invation as an example of "Muslim Fanatic recruiting material". Ignoring the fact that they obviously didn't need it back before 9/11. Seems like the fanatics had no problems with their numbers back then, but hey- if you want to be that blind, I support that to.

....But don't you for one moment think that I'll stand idley by while you use the deaths and mutilations of American soldiers as a step onto your soap box. No one forced us to join the military sweetie, we did that on our own. And anyone who says they don't know the risks is a God D@mn liar. We go over there and we do a job that 99% of this nation isn't willing to. We do it so that maybe- hopefully, we will some day live in a place that we can feel good about bringing children into. We do it so the people here at home can sleep peacfully knowing that someone else- some one with a great deal more intestinal fortitude, is fighting for them.
Picking up a weapon does not require a lot of strength, but using it does. And that's what we do. We pick up and move out so that you can sit at home and wring your little hands while you watch the news. You want to cry for the Iraqi's? You want to make them into myarters? You go right a-freakin-head. But don't you dare cry for us. We don't want your pity, and we d@mn sure don't want to be any part of your agenda.

Answer 9

SOMEONE HAS TO POLICE THE POLICE right?

american politicians claim that they are saving the world, can you leave your conscience in-tacked and let your gov. run over anyone that stands in-there way? it is a shame that most americans are brainwashed by the administration of your "once great country"
its about time some one does something to help protect the rest of the wold. lets show these American politicians that they have to be accountable for there actions

i think it is great, if he is innocent he can go free, if not they should hang him with Saddam.
it go's to show that no one is safe to commit such atrocities ie: torture at abu ghraib and waging war for no reasons, there is and never was wmd in Iraq France, Germany and the rest of the world (even the UN tried to stop u) told u that before u attacked a innocent country.

i hope that they will take bush to court as well. it is about time some one does something about these stupid american politicians running around destroying the world. it might help to improve the world view of the american armed forces as well, if they were just following orders.

Answer 10

Saddam was wrong in killing his own people but what about T Blair. How many people die in this country from poor hospital treatment, how many old people die of hypothermia every winter, how many people are murdered because killers are allowed out because of our legal system, how many people are killed by yobs who know the law can't touch them, need I go on. Anyway, there were no WMD found in Iraq. Blair was nothing but Bush's lapdog.