Britt Dee
ResistRadio
September 6, 2012
Archbishop Desmond Tutu's recent condemnation of Tony Blair's role in
the invasion of Iraq, and his refusal to attend a summit with the former
British prime minister, increases the pressure on war criminal Blair.
In a searing written indictment
published on Sunday, Tutu slammed Blair for the devastating war. He
criticised Blair's fabrications which led to the invasion of Iraq,
including his lies about the country's supposed weapons of mass
destruction, and his refusal to allow UN inspectors more time to
establish whether or not Saddam Hussein posed a genuine threat to world
peace.
He described Blair and Bush as immoral playground bullies, whose
reckless warmongering has caused extensive suffering and loss of life,
further polarised the world, and helped normalise a climate of Western
aggression that currently threatens formerly stable, sovereign, and
peaceful Iran and Syria.
Here are five reasons why Tony Blair is a war criminal, who should be on trial in The Hague.
1) Blair launched a war of aggression that broke international law
In attacking Iraq, Blair committed a crime against peace,
defined by the Nuremberg Principles as the "planning, preparation,
initiation or waging of a war of aggression". The Iraq war was waged for
a reason other than self-defence, which made it a crime of aggression and violated Articles 33 and 51 of the UN Charter.
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