What's Holding Back The World Court?

I've asked this before...now it's even clearer major crimes were committed on the Iraqi people in violation of the Geneva Convention and other international protocols.

Does anyone know how the World Court process works and what it takes to get them to investigate what's going on here. Enough is enough!

is immune from war crimes prosecution

I know the BFEE has it's tentacles in all sorts of places, but no nation can be immune from being allowed to destroy another country without some form of redress.

I need a drink!

they didn't sign the treaty, and they've got the most guns. sorry, nothing can be done until after the election.

the US is not a part of the agreement at this point..maybe in the future..

Again, we sit on our own little pedistal we made for ourselvs and look down saying HEY we are better than the world.
I hope this fiasco can call out to the world that we are no better than anyone else and that even the US should be held accountable for war crimes that we HAVE commited.

we're not currently a party to it ...if other nations tried to force the US into it, it wouldn't work...

International law is for suckas.

our illegal invasion of Iraq. Somehow the Repubs twist it around to make it seem as if Iraq invaded the US. Yes, indeed, where is the World Court?

and Joe Lieberman with his outrageous apology remark.

"irrelevant?'
Wasn't that the term used to describe the UN?
BHN

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) or the International Criminal Court (ICC)?
The ICJ is part of the UN.
The US refuses to join the ICC.
In any event, the likely forum here is military court.

The CACI employees will need to be prosecuted in some court back here in the US, some as yet unestablished court in Iraq (or perhaps if they stop in Spain the courts there will do what others will not).

I would imagine if the U.S. is a signatory to the U.N. Charter that it must abide by the rules of the ICJ. Also, there's non-stop citing of the Geneva Conventions, obviously the brass are concerned about those...and is that an ICC or ICJ jurisdiction?

Also, who does the IRC report to? Don't they have some ability to condemn or invoke some investigative action?

I'm not familiar with International law, thus my questions.

I would also figure that the Contractors, as private citizens, could be hauled in front of civil courts. I smell class action on that front. Both with Iraqis and those who will get steam-rolled in the upcoming court martials.

Ck the dates:

The United States and the International Criminal Court
a briefing:

On May 6 02'the United States government delivered a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations giving formal notice that the US has no intention of becoming a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The letter also requested that the US declaration be reflected in the Rome treaty’s official status list – effectively canceling out the US signature to the treaty that was entered by the Clinton administration on December 31, 2001. This measure – popularly referred to as "unsigning" – sets the United States in outright opposition to the court, which will come into existence on July 1 of this year.

The move confirmed that the Bush administration will not submit the Rome treaty establishing the court to the Senate for ratification, and that it will refuse to cooperate with the court once it is up and running. The administration also announced that it would attempt to negotiate bilateral agreements with as many other countries as possible to prevent them from surrendering US agents to the court.

In this document, we attempt to answer some of the questions raised by the administration’s action, and examine the substance of the charges that government officials have leveled at the court.

What does ‘unsigning’ mean?










http://www.crimesofwar.org/onnews/news-us-icc.html

"Look, your shoe is untied!"

subscribe to things such as the world court.

I saw a bumper sticker today--DON'T MESS WITH THE US

that says it all. We seem to have a lot of ignorant people here who think that bullying the rest of the world is the key to their own survival.

NOW is the chance for someone to show their is decency left in the world. Type your message below to the French embassy, or call the German embassy--

>>>Tell them to cut off relations with the US Bush Administration, to protest the Iraq tortures!

French embassy:

http://www.info-france-usa.org/comment.asp

German Embassy
4645 Reservoir Road NW
Washington, DC, 20007-1998
(202) 298-4000

of the accused is unable, or unwilling, to charge them. So the US soldiers would be unlikely to go there anyway, with the process started under the military code. The civilian contractors are another matter - while it's unlikely there would be any attempt to take them from the US or Iraq (NATO has sent in snatch squads in Yugoslavia to get people), I suspect those civilians will be staying out of any countries that haven't agreed to exempt US citizens from the ICC (eg they'll have to avoid EU countries).