To be fair to Pink John, he did get a topic going and that was Ms. Rice is to be at CUHK on March 19th. Anyone hear anything more? There are times when we all post in haste and it can be misconstrued and perhaps I did this here.
Pink John has a point about the Iraq War and while I'd not call all of them war criminals, the legitimacy of that war was questionable and I don't mean just that they found no WMD. Hindsight wasn't needed here. I never believed the Iraqis to be that far ahead and the UN inspectors were finding nothing as they went on. It was as if the US and the UK knew they'd find nothing so had to act first to justify the take out of Saddam.
My understanding is that to be deemed a war criminal you'd have to have ordered something heinous that violates the Geneva Convention. Not sure if Rice is close enough to the seat of power to meet any criteria of a war criminal.
The US and Britain did not heed the UN Security Council who passed a resolution demanding Iraq cease and desist and submit to inspections and took it on their own to make a preemptive strike arguing that Iraq was a threat. While a nation can do this if they are directly threatened neither the US or the UK could really claim they met this criteria. The facts suggest that the USA aided by their lap dog, Tony Blair, didn't believe the Sec Council would act so did it on their own.
I would like to hear Condileeza Rice although there is no way she'll deviate from the party line.