Groundswell?

[[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Beesley)]

On Saturday 30 August 2003 11:42, iriXx wrote:
> Peter Fairbrother wrote:
> > Is there a deep, long-term, word-of-mouth, campaign about "the Iraq WMD
> > deceptions" that is enough to kill off both Blair and Bush?
> >
> > Not OT, it's relevant to the cryptography/law question. What would/will
> > the next government be likely to do?
>
> i want to know if its possible to try them both on war crimes?

Possible, yes. The problem is finding a court which might be prepared to hear 
the evidence. _I_ know they're guilty as hell, but they have a good defence - 
they "won" the _last_ war, and there is no precedent for incumbent victors to 
be tried for war crimes. Otherwise quite a number of WWII Allied leaders 
should have been tried, and convicted, for war crimes: Roosevelt for failing 
to prevent the area bombing of Japanese cities, Churchill for ordering the 
bombing of Dresden, Truman for ordering the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and 
Nagasaki, Stalin for numerous heinous crimes quite as bad as anything faced 
by any of the defendants at the Nuremburg trial.

I don't think that losing the peace is the same as being defeated militarily.

Brian Beesley