Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney caught the right spirit when she called for impeaching President George Bush. The real war criminals are at home. And if the International Criminal Court were really independent of the imperialists, it would put Bush on trial—and first. Starting in the 1990s, U.S. imperialism and its allies used the Security Council of the United Nations to create special tribunals to hold trials for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. The most publicized concerned civil wars in Cambodia, Rwanda and especially the former Yugoslavia, whose president, Slobodan Milosevic was indicted as U.S.-NATO bombs were dropping on his country. Each of these cases shared more or less the same characteristics. Imperialist countries had either instigated or intervened in civil wars. No imperialist politicians...
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