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Judge Thyself
Here’s the latest on Uncle Sam’s hypocrisy: it has decided not to become a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) that was adopted on July 17, 1998. Unlike the International Court of Justice, the ICC can try individual citizens referred to it by the UN Security Council, a ICC member or even ICC prosecutors. President Bill Clinton had reluctantly affixed his signature to the Statute but didn’t refer it to the Senate for ratification. And George Bush has decided to pull out. Reason: the ICC has the potential of going after US military personnel, now deployed in large numbers abroad. And to think the US wants to fight what it calls the axis of evil, stretching from N Korea through Afghanistan to Iraq.
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