I have spent hours chasing down any means of holding these people accountable, and have found brick walls at every turn. A google search of "war crimes tribunal" had a number of references concerning Iraq. Bush & Co have proactively protected their collective backsides from prosecution:
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And how ominous that only weeks ago, German prosecutors began pursuing a criminal investigation into the alleged role of Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and numerous other administration members regarding prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo.
Rumsfeld will lose his legal immunity when he ceases to be Defense Secretary, a fact which must weigh heavily on Bush and others. Unsurprisingly, the administration has taken pre-emptive action against future war crimes charges, including pushing through the scandalous Military Commissions Act, which provides them retroactive domestic protection from prosecution regarding prisoner abuse cases.
On the world stage, the administration’s primary battleground for immunity has been the International Criminal Court (ICC), set up in 2002 to investigate and prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. Roughly 100 countries have ratified the ICC Statute, and over 40 others have signed it, but the Bush administration renounced the treaty on grounds it could lead to "frivolous or politically motivated prosecutions."
The administration has done everything in its power to enervate the ICC, including setting up bilateral "Article 98" agreements which arm-twist other countries into not prosecuting US nationals or foreign nationals working for the US. Over 100 nations, mainly poor and dependent on foreign aid, have signed the agreements, but many others have stood firm and lost US aid as a result, including Brazil, Peru and South Africa.
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Ramsey Clark attempted to have Bush 41, and the same gang of thieves currently advising 43, tried for war crimes during the first Gulf War, to no avail. I can't help but believe that the current president and his advisors are a "Poppy" redux:
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GW has also prevented the release of his father's papers by executive order. There has also been sufficient time to data mine all of the documents taken from Iraq for "troublesome" information.
This cesspool reaches back to Reagan at least. Where will the political will come from to pursue these crimes? The bastards just might get away with it.