Today is Pearl Harbor Day!

Remember Pearl Harbor? Legionnaire Bush Doesn’t
United Press International
September 07, 1988

Today, you remember. I wonder how many Americans remember. Today is Pearl Harbor Day. Forty-seven years ago to this very day, we were hit and hit hard at Pearl Harbor and we were not ready.

The nut doesn’t fall far from the Bush.

President gaffes in terror speech
BBC
Friday, 6 August, 2004, 12:49 GMT

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful – and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people – and neither do we.

Iraqi Woman Uses Chilcot Report in War Crimes Lawsuit Against George W. Bush
By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout
Sunday, 04 September 2016 00:00

Sundus Saleh, an Iraqi woman, first filed her lawsuit against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz in September 2013. Alleging that the Iraq War constituted an illegal crime of aggression, Saleh filed the suit on behalf of herself and other Iraqis in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Inder Comar, Saleh’s lawyer, explained, “Nuremberg held that domestic immunity was not a defense to allegations of international aggression. Everything the Germans did was legal under the law. We are asking the Ninth Circuit to reject the application of domestic immunity in this case, in line with the holdings of Nuremberg.”
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The UN Charter, which was created by the countries of the world in 1945 to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” prohibits the use of military force except in self-defense or with Security Council approval. Neither of these two conditions was present before the US-UK invasion of Iraq. Iraq did not pose an imminent military threat to any UN member country on March 19, 2003, and the Security Council did not approve the invasion.

A “crime against peace” is defined by the Nuremberg Charter as “planning, preparation, initiation or waging a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing.” The US-UK war against Iraq was a war of aggression.

The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg held, “To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

In his opening statement as chief US prosecutor at Nuremberg, US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson said, “No political, military, economic, or other considerations shall serve as an excuse or justification” for a war of aggression. He added, “If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them.”

Saleh’s complaint cites statements made by the defendants as early as 1998 which indicate their intention to change Iraq’s regime. For example, in his testimony before the House National Security Committee on Iraq, Wolfowitz advocated the removal of Hussein and the formation of a provisional government that would “control the largest oil field in Iraq.”

On September 12, 2001, Rumsfeld complained that there were no decent targets for bombing Afghanistan so the United States should consider bombing Iraq, which had better targets. Bush said at the time that the US should change Iraq’s government.

In July 2002, Dearlove, reporting on recent meetings in the US, said, “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”
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The defendants engaged in a pattern and practice of deceiving the American public into believing that a link between al-Qaeda and Iraq existed in order to win approval for the crime of aggression against Iraq.

On September 14, 2004, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan stated, “I have indicated that [the invasion of Iraq] was not in conformity with the UN Charter. From our point of view and from the Charter’s point of view it was illegal.”

August 31st, 1939, a group of Special Operations troops led by Alfred Naujocks seized the Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia (Germany), radio station. They broadcast some anti-German propaganda and left behind the body of Franciszek Honiok, arrested earlier in the day by the Gestapo for being a Polish sympathizer, who was dressed as a saboteur, poisoned to death, and shot. Several inmates from Dachau in Polish uniforms were likewise left dead at the scene. In German these people were referred to as Konserve, canned goods.

The next day, justified by this “provocation”, Adolph Hitler and the German government started an aggressive war that was eventually to kill over 60 Million (conservatively) or just over 3% of the Earth’s entire population.

Welcome to mid-20th Century Germany. I hope you survive your stay.

I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.