In his new memoir, 'The Age of Deception,' the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, chief UN nuclear inspector, and Nobel winner Mohamed ElBaradei has recommended a War Crimes investigation and trial for the Bush team.
He compares the situation to the prosecution of Milosevic and calls out the hypocrisy of the world's double standard when it comes to US war crimes.
ElBaradei, citing the war-crimes prosecution of Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic, sees double standards that should end.
"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?" he asks.
As it becomes increasingly clear to the international community that the US is incapable or uninterested in prosecuting its war criminals, the International Criminal Court MUST act.
"I was aghast at what I was witnessing," ElBaradei writes of the official U.S. attitude before the March 2003 invasion, which he calls "aggression where there was no imminent threat," a war in which he accepts estimates that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed.
It's time for the international community to assert its power over America's leaders. It's the only way to prevent war crimes by America in the future.Updated by bill kramer at Fri Apr 22, 2011 at 04:17 PM PDT
The AP story linked to above is now in the most emailed section at Yahoo News. Clearly Americans want to hear more followup about this issue from so-called serious "mainstream" news reporters.