Iran Leader: Bush Will Be Tried

[babylonsister]

Maybe Iran can do what we seem unable to accomplish.

Iran Leader: Bush Will Be Tried
by Nasser Karimi

TEHRAN, Iran - President Bush will one day be tried in court just like deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein for his involvement in the Iraq tragedy, Iran’s supreme leader said Friday.

Speaking to thousands of worshippers during the first Friday prayer of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Bush will be called to account for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

“A day will come that the current U.S. president and officials will be tried in an international supreme court for the catastrophes they caused in Iraq,” he said.

“Americans will have to answer for why they don’t end occupation of Iraq and why waves of terrorism and insurgency have overwhelmed the country,” he added. “It will not be like this forever and some day they will be stopped as happened to Hitler, Saddam and certain other European leaders.”

Khamenei mocked the U.S., describing the recent congressional testimony of the top U.S. officials in Iraq as a sign of weakness and the failure of American policy in the war torn country.

“More than four years have passed since the occupation of Iraq and today everyone knows that America has failed and is frantically looking for a way out,” he said.

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[TahitiNut]

1. From his mouth to Allah's ears.

I can find points of agreement with almost anyone, it seems. :shrug:

[Prophet 451]

2. Doubt it

No question, they should be tried but the way the political system works and the contempt that virtually all US politicians (on both sides) seem to feel toward any international body which can hold them responsible makes it unlikely.

The US is the only nation ever to be found guilty of international terrorism by the World Court. The response was to double the bombing runs in an act of defiance.

[TankLV]

3. God I hope and pray for that to be so every day...

make it soon, please, if there is a god...

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. And to be a little realist about this

exactly who is going to arrest them and take them to the court?

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard?

This speech if for internal consumption and I am sure Khameini realizes the only place Bush will be tried is at the Court of God, assuming there is one.

Of course the sentence (Under Christian Theology) is quite clear, and the deepest recesses of Hell are open for Bush et al... but in a court of law? Unless this country was defeated, fat chance.

A little reality, I know

Not that I would not love to escort these guys to the Hague... by the by