http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/michaelratner/2008/11/04/a-black-family-in-the-white-house-that-slaves-built/ Just another The Chelsea Green Weblogs weblog Mon, 21 May 2012 14:29:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/michaelratner/2008/11/04/a-black-family-in-the-white-house-that-slaves-built/#comment-2 jte Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:29:28 +0000 http://chelseagreen.com/blogs/michaelratner/?p=3#comment-2 Perhaps a President Obama and a strongly Democratic Congress will sign and certify the international war crimes treaty. If I understand it correctly, that would mean that the international war crimes court could be used to try suspected war criminals--but only if the court system in the home country fails to act. So the U.S. courts would be welcome (encouraged!) to pursue war crimes charges against Bush et al, but if they fail to do so despite the voluminous existing evidence of his and their guilt, then the international court would be available to pick up the slack. Eh? Perhaps a President Obama and a strongly Democratic Congress will sign and certify the international war crimes treaty. If I understand it correctly, that would mean that the international war crimes court could be used to try suspected war criminals–but only if the court system in the home country fails to act. So the U.S. courts would be welcome (encouraged!) to pursue war crimes charges against Bush et al, but if they fail to do so despite the voluminous existing evidence of his and their guilt, then the international court would be available to pick up the slack. Eh?

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