ElBaradei suggests war crimes probe of Bush team
By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent
NEW YORK – Former chief U.N. nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the "shame of a needless war" in Iraq.
Freer to speak now than he was as an international civil servant, the Nobel-winning Egyptian accuses U.S. leaders of "grotesque distortion" in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq invasion, when then-President George W. Bush and his lieutenants claimed Iraq possessed doomsday weapons despite contrary evidence collected by ElBaradei's and other arms inspectors inside the country.The Iraq war taught him that "deliberate deception was not limited to small countries ruled by ruthless dictators," ElBaradei writes in "The Age of Deception," being published Tuesday by Henry Holt and Company.
And I'll tell you, I'm all for this investigation--an impartial one--not for retribution or vengeance or any other reason but that this way, hopefully, we would make certain that history doesn't repeat.
As Mr. ElBaradei states: "Do we, as a community of nations, have the wisdom and courage to take the corrective measures needed, to ensure that such a tragedy will never happen again?"
As Mr. ElBaradei states: "Do we, as a community of nations, have the wisdom and courage to take the corrective measures needed, to ensure that such a tragedy will never happen again?"
That said, an investigation will never happen, sadly, as no one has the "guts" or chutzpah or fortitude, whatever you want to call it, to even begin it, let alone see it through. The American people aren't calling for it and don't have the will for it. In spite of how illegal attacking Iraq was and is both nationally, internally, here in the US and the fact that it's quite against international law, George W. Bush and Co. will get away with this travesty and travesty of justice.
They will have told many lies, broken laws, been responsible for thousands of needless deaths and hundreds of thousands of wounded people and gotten away with it all, scott-free.
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