Cheney and Bush to the Hague

Kristof calls for Cheney's resignation. This seems correct: he should resign. But at For the Record, we believe in no halfway measures.

Cheney and Bush lied the US into an aggressive war, for the purposes of, inter alia, restoring family honor, helping the oil industry, helping the military-industrial complex in general and saving Halliburton from bankruptcy, missionizing Iraqis, turning Bush into a war president to win the '04 election, and  helping Israel. The results of this aggressive war do not bear repeating -- any readers of this weblog are well-aware of the incredible calamity -- though those who wish to fuel their ire may examine these photographs.

In light of these facts, we side with Robert Jackson, chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, in his view that  the waging of aggressive war "essentially an evil thing . . . to initiate a war of aggression . . . is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." We believe that the only just outcome for this affair would be trial in the Hague, conviction on the supreme international crime, and comission of the appropriate sentence.