According to some Arabs, Iran is committing war crimes in the Gulf targeting civilians. I could not help laughing.
Who killed those more than 160 children in a school in Iran at the start of the war against Iran? That is not a war crime? Who had been killing innocent women and children in Gaza? That is not a war crime?
When no action can be taken against the perpetrators, that becomes no war crime and seems to be the mantra? Who started an illegal war in Iraq based on fabrication, killing thousands of innocent civilians. That is no war crime?
What crime did Rodrigo Duterte commit going after drug lords and trying to get rid of the drug menace in the Philippines? So, a war crime is only a war crime if the USA and the West say so. I rest my case.
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Now the USA is saying that the ICC is 'irredeemably corrupt'. For once I cannot disagree that the ICC is not corrupt for not bringing the perpetrators of the Iraq War to justice. Who would choose to disagree? Tony Blair had been touted as a 'voice of influence'. Yes, he is the voice of influence over the war crimes in Iraq by providing fabricated evidence to George W. Bush and was even given a knighthood of all things.
Now, the USA is saying that the ICC is 'irredeemably corrupt' not because of the ICC not bringing to justice the perpetrators of the Iraq War but because the ICC is looking at bringing to justice the commission of the USA's war crimes in Gaza and Iran, over the killing of innocent girls, women and children.
The ICC is under very grave criticism globally for overlooking the war crimes committed by the USA leaders and failing to bring the USA leaders to justice. Under threat by the USA of the ICC leaders risked being bombed to pieces, they cowered and did nothing. The kidnapping of Rodrigo Duterte clearly shows that the ICC is not punishing criminals but doing it selectively and without precedence. It appears that only those with big guns are exempted from being under the jurisdiction of the ICC. What kind of an International Criminal Court is that supposed to represent and who is to respect its actions?
Of course, it can always be argued that the USA was not a member of the ICC, and so was the Philippines with the latter withdrawing as a member in 2019. And so was Russia, with Putin slap with an arrest warrant by the ICC even when Russia was not a member of the ICC.
Of course, the ICC can do nothing about the war crimes of the USA leaders particularly Trump, Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio. But by issuing arrest warrants for them would at least give the ICC some semblance of credibility. Would anyone bet on the ICC doing it?
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