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Actually, I heard that the universal thing was added to the law to make sure that people who lived in countries with bad governments/legal systems would still have a way to get justice. That was the goal. In reality, some people were sued that were meant to be sued (the African nuns, for example), but most lawsuits were aimed at countries with a perfectly normal legal system, that are fully capable of solving their own problems.
*IF* the Bush administration ordered war crimes to be committed in Iraq, they will eventually be brought to justice in the USA, just like every other criminal. They don't need some small European country to tell them what to do. In fact, if I were an Iraqi subject to US war crimes, I'd file suit in either Iraq (unlikely to help), or the USA. If the evidence is compelling enough, people *will* get convicted. As it stands, launching a lawsuit in Belgium doesn't get you one bit of justice: even if anyone is convicted, they will never be extradited to receive their punishment.
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