Richard Ali writes:

> Richard Barker writes:
>> Will Bush be prosecuted as a war criminal if he goes to war without
>> the UN backing ?

> Britain is a signatory to the International Criminal Court. The US
> is not. We respect the rule of law both at home and internationally.
> There is no such thing as an "unreasonable veto" as Blair has called
> it. If we go ahead and attack Iraq without an explicit UN resolution
> authorising it, then Blair will have ordered our forces to commit
> war crimes. There may well be countries that would indicte our
> leaders on this basis.

Negotiators were never able to agree on a definition of "aggression",
so the ICC does not currently have any jurisdiction over an alleged
crime of starting a war.

http://www.un.org/law/icc/statute/romefra.htm

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