RE: Is Obama guilty of war crimes?
January 8, 2014 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: January 8, 2014 at 6:15 pm by Mudhammam.)
(December 19, 2013 at 11:57 am)Kitanetos Wrote: If Bush was not held accountable for war crimes, why should Obama?
Yes, presidents should be held accountable for war crimes, but we live in a country where they are not.
It is a high crime under the US Constitution to not uphold treaties (these are equivalent to US federal laws) and among those we have a commitment to prosecuting war crimes, such as torture, which waterboarding is clearly defined to be under different treaties we have signed. So every President who ignores the criminality of his (or her) predecessor is actually committing a criminal act in-of-itself.
