Petition to UN General  Assembly - International Criminal Tribunal to try Bush Regime

PEJ News - Joan Russow - Although there is an impeachment movement in the US, President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney et al must be judged by the International Community.

Please sign the enclosed petition to the UN General Assembly to set up an International Tribunal to try the Bush Regime.

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PETITION TO THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO SET UP AN INTERNATIONAL
CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL TO TRY PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH, VICE-PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, FORMER SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL ALBERTO GONZALES

1. The UN General Assembly has the authority to set up such a tribunal
by a majority vote as a "subsidiary organ" under UN Charter
Article 22.

2. The Statute should be modeled upon the Statute for the International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, which the United States
supported at the UN Security Council, so as a matter of law it is
unobjectionable.

3. There should be added to the ICTY Statute an additional crime of
Crime Against Peace, as defined by the Nuremberg Charter (1945), the
Nuremberg Judgment (1946) and the Nuremberg Principles (1950), and
as codified by US Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956) paragraph 498.

4. The purpose of the ICTU (International Criminal Tribunal)  against
the United States under the Bush regime) would be to investigate and
prosecute United States war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide
against the Peoples of Iraq just as the ICTY did for the victims of international
crimes committed by Serbia and the Milosevic Regime throughout the Balkans.

5. The establishment of ICTU would provide some small degree of
justice to the victims of US war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide
against the Peoples of Iraq--just as the ICTY has done in the
Balkans.

6. Furthermore, the establishment of ICTU by the U.N. General Assembly would
serve as a deterrent effect upon US leaders such PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH,
VICE-PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA
RICE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL ALBERTO GONZALES and members of
Congress as well as top generals that they will be prosecuted for Their further infliction
of international crimes against Iraq.

7. Without such a deterrent, the US administration along with the US
Congress might be emboldened to attack other states such as Iran.

*since the USA has refused to become a party to
the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court, this is the
only effective legal redress the rest of the world has against US
Officials.

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Please send a copy to j.russow@shawlink.ca and to the President or
Prime Minister of your country [if you think your country might be
sympathetic] ro to another country that would be sympathetic

For further information; please contact Francis Boyle at "Boyle,
Francis" <FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU>or Joan Russow (PhD) Global
Compliance Research Project at j.russow@shawlink.ca