WHat do you think? Should he be put on trial before a world court?
If Bush Used Nuclear Weapons On Iran Should He Be Tried As A War Criminal?
by frankiespeakin 119 Replies latest jw friends
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stillajwexelder
I dont think he will -if he did there would have to be major provocation by Iran
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Highlander
Yep, an unprovoked nuclear attack authorized by Braindead Bush should be considered a crime against humanity, a war crime, a criminal act, etc, etc.
I don't think he's stupid enough to do such a thing. I could see the US targeting the nuclear facilities of Iran using conventional weapons.
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Tyrone van leyen
I don't know Frank. Should Harry Truman be tried as a war criminal for ending the second world war. Should he be tried for making Japan, Germany, Italy and Russia better countreis to live in for the betterment of humankind in it's totality.
Should Bush be tried if he used this as a last resort to stop a radical movement that cares not for human life or rights and save the free world at large.
You are so interested in hammering poor old tongue tied Bush, when it is Ahmadinejad who is defying nuclear inspections and the international community. He has openly stated that he wishes to wipe Israel off the map and even held an international conference to disprove the Holocust and mock the world. Does that not bother you? Is that not far more worthy of mention seeing as how they would use it without even blinking.
Why don't you ask, If Ahmadinjad uses nuclear weapons or Kim Jong Il should they be tried as war criminals? The answer is yes.
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Who are you?
If Iran nukes Israel like they have promised, should Bush be tried as a war criminal for that too?
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Tyrone van leyen
You might even ask that of the Russians who are responsible for the largest detonation of the largest atomic bomb the world has ever produced and have no compunction about selling weapons to Hugo Chavez in Venezuala or helping Iran to perfect there nuclear capabilities.
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frankiespeakin
Bush has not ruled out a nuclear strike against Iran, which i my opinion if he ever did or any onther country's leaders did should make them liable for war crimes by a world court.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mcnuclear.asp
April 17, 2006
Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Letter to President Bush,
Call Nuclear Weapons Against Iran ‘Gravely Irresponsible’By Kim McDonald Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have “disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.”
The physicists include five Nobel laureates, a recipient of the National Medal of Science and three past presidents of the American Physical Society, the nation’s preeminent professional society for physicists.
Their letter was prompted by recent articles in the Washington Post, New Yorker and other publications that one of the options being considered by Pentagon planners and the White House in a military confrontation with Iran includes the use of nuclear bunker busters against underground facilities. These reports were neither confirmed nor denied by White House and Pentagon officials.
The letter was initiated by Jorge Hirsch, a professor of physics at the University of California , San Diego , who last fall put together a petition signed by more than 1,800 physicists that repudiated new U.S. nuclear weapons policies that include preemptive use of nuclear weapons against non-nuclear adversaries (http://physics.ucsd.edu/petition/). Hirsch has also published 15 articles in recent months (http://antiwar.com/hirsch/) documenting the dangers associated with a potential U.S. nuclear strike on Iran .
“We are members of the profession that brought nuclear weapons into existence, and we feel strongly that it is our professional duty to contribute our efforts to prevent their misuse,” says Hirsch. "Physicists know best about the devastating effects of the weapons they created, and these eminent physicists speak for thousands of our colleagues.”
“The fact that the existence of this plan has not been denied by the Administration should be a cause of great alarm, even if it is only one of several plans being considered,” he adds. “The public should join these eminent scientists in demanding that the Administration publicly renounces such a misbegotten option against a non-nuclear country like Iran .”
The letter, which is available at http://physics.ucsd.edu/petition/physicistsletter.html, points out that “nuclear weapons are unique among weapons of mass destruction,” and that nuclear weapons in today's arsenals have a total power of more than 200,000 times the explosive energy of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima, which caused the deaths of more than 100,000 people.
It notes that there are no sharp lines between small and large nuclear weapons, nor between nuclear weapons targeting facilities and those targeting armies or cities, and that the use by the United States of nuclear weapons after 60 years of non-use will make the use of nuclear weapons by others more likely.
“Once the U.S. uses a nuclear weapon again, it will heighten the probability that others will too,” the physicists write. “In a world with many more nuclear nations and no longer a ‘taboo’ against the use of nuclear weapons, there will be a greatly enhanced risk that regional conflicts could expand into global nuclear war, with the potential to destroy our civilization.”
The letter echoes the main objection of last fall’s physicists’ petition, stressing that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty will be irreversibly damaged by the use or even the threat of use of nuclear weapons by a nuclear nation against a non-nuclear one, with disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world.
“It is gravely irresponsible for the U.S. as the greatest superpower to consider courses of action that could eventually lead to the widespread destruction of life on the planet. We urge the administration to announce publicly that it is taking the nuclear option off the table in the case of all non-nuclear adversaries, present or future, and we urge the American people to make their voices heard on this matter.”
The 13 physicists who coauthored the letter are: Philip Anderson, professor of physics at Princeton University and Nobel Laureate in Physics; Michael Fisher, professor of physics at the Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland and Wolf Laureate in Physics; David Gross, professor of theoretical physics and director of the Kavli Institute of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Nobel Laureate in Physics; Jorge Hirsch, professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego; Leo Kadanoff, professor of physics and mathematics at the University of Chicago and recipient of the National Medal of Science; Joel Lebowitz, professor of mathematics and physics, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and Boltzmann Medalist; Anthony Leggett, professor of physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Nobel Laureate, Physics; Eugen Merzbacher, professor of physics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former president, American Physical Society; Douglas Osheroff, professor of physics and applied physics, Stanford University and Nobel Laureate, Physics; Andrew Sessler, former director of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and former president, American Physical Society; George Trilling, professor of physics, University of California, Berkeley, and former president, American Physical Society; Frank Wilczek, professor of physics, MIT and Nobel Laureate, Physics; Edward Witten, professor of physics, Institute for Advanced Study and Fields Medalist.
The physicists are sending copies of their letter to their elected representatives, requesting that the issue be urgently addressed in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
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free2beme
He wont, so don't worry about it. If he does, then you really let the genie out of the bottle. As we could never AGAIN condemn another nation for using theirs. We already have issue with credibility on that, because of the two we dropped on Japan.
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jaguarbass
He should be on trial now for war crimes and lying, but he is above the law, He is the dictator of the world.
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jaguarbass
Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Letter to President Bush,
Call Nuclear Weapons Against Iran ‘Gravely Irresponsible’He cant read, and he dont listen so that was a waste of time.
Besides that he's as whacky as they are, he thinks he's doing the work of God.
Do you mean to ask, If Bush used Nuclear weapons on Iran should Chaney and Rove be tried as war criminals.
I would think Bush has already proved his mental incompetance to the world.