Is it Fair for George W. Bush to Remain ‘Outside Prison Bars’?: OEA Libya, Libya

Coming from a state-controlled mouthpiece of Muammar Gaddafi’s despotic regime, some may scoff at this article calling for President Bush to be brought before the International Criminal Court and charged with war crimes. The unfortunate truth, however, is that the sentiments expressed by OEA Libya’s Ali Mar’i al-Ahad are by no means out of the norm in the Muslim world and beyond.

For OEA Libya, Ali Mar’i al-Ahad writes in part:

“It is perhaps the strangest and most unfair irony of our times that former U.S. President George W. Bush remains free after the series of war crimes and crimes against humanity he committed during his mandate.

The question that presents itself is this: Who bears responsibility for the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, that have resulted in the killings of thousands upon thousands of civilians? Logic and objectivity would lay responsibility for prosecuting those who committed these historic crimes at the doorstep of the International Criminal Court, holding the guilty accountable for undermining international peace and security.

“Perhaps the day will come when former President Bush is presented with an arrest warrant and handed over to the International Criminal Court, just like the others who have been brought to trial, such as Serbian Radovan Karadzic, Yugoslavian Slobodan Milosevic and Liberian Charles Taylor.”

By Ali Mar’i al-Ahad

Translated By James Jacobson

October 19, 2009

Libya – OEA Libya – Original Article (Arabic)
It is perhaps the strangest and most unfair irony of our times that former U.S. President George W. Bush remains free after the series of war crimes and crimes against humanity he committed during his mandate – including the lies and attendant misrepresentations he used as pretexts for his missions of aggression. This is particularly true in the cases of Iraq and Afghanistan, launched within the framework of what he called the “War on Terror” in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001.

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