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Clinton War Crimes Indictment by IAC in New York by Jon Basil Utley

IEA Indictment, reported by Insight Magazine's by James Lucier

International Law and War sound incompatible, yet over centuries certain norms of behavior have been established. See for example our posting on THEORY OF JUST WAR. The War Party’s view is well propounded by John Bolton of the American Enterprise Institute and a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations. He argues, "It is a big mistake for us to grant any validity to international law even when it may seem in our short-term interest to do so—because, over the long term, the goal of those who think that international law really means anything are those who want to constrict the United States." (quoted in INSIGHT)  This view isn’t just neoconservative. It’s shared by many isolationists on the Right as well. 

    It's predominance is reflected in American refusal to ratify the International Criminal Tribunal agreement, created by treaty and approved by 120 nations for fear that Washington might be held accountable under and international rule of law.  But Washington then hypocritically supports the ad hoc UN criminal tribunals not authorized by UN Charter to pursue its chosen enemies, e.g. Serbia's Milosovic.

We at AMERICANS AGAINST WORLD EMPIRE disagree. We argue that America, as the richest and most powerful nation, has very much an interest in a rule of law rather than brute force, unless it wants constantly to be at war.  Just the same as the wealthy in a neighborhood have the most to lose from lawlessness and are the first to urge a rule of law in their own homelands. Also as the wealthiest Washington is likely to predominate in making laws.  Without law, there will be continual war (which is what the WARPARTY of course wants, just as did the one which ruled "Oceania" in George Orwell's classic "1984").

Added to this is the pure hypocrisy of "Victor’s Justice" which consequently undermines America’s standing and own values. America hung Germans at Nuremberg for "starting a war." Yet that is exactly what we did in Yugoslavia. And when it comes to killing civilian non-combatants, no nation, since the collapse of communism, does it as competently and on such a vast scale as we do.  For more detailed study of Consitutional and International Law

Above are two reports on Indictments for War Crimes against President Clinton and his top aides analyzing precedents and international law.