When the UN and the ICC failed to do its job of prosecuting the war criminals for the war crimes in Iraq, over the fabricated evidence in the war against Iraq, the writing was already on the wall that such world bodies existed, not for overseeing justice, but to protect those with the power to dictate. What is the value of a world body that have no backbone to uphold justice in the face of threats to its leaders trying to appear credible?
The hogwash was further exposed by the action of the ICC against Rodrigo Duterte, who had no backing, even from his own Government, to do what the USA war criminals were able to do to escape justice. Do we honestly believe that Duterte will get a fair trial at the Hague? In any case, his crime was killing drug lords out to destroy the Philippines. If that is a crime against humanity, what about the USA military striking boats in the Gulf for unproven drug trafficking. Isn't that as criminally punishable as what Duterte did? Everything seems to have a double standard, and the only justice appears to come only from the barrel of a gun.
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