ICC goes after Gaddafi. What about Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld and co?

Blair and Gaddafi:making money and killing people

The chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court says he will recommend that the ICC judges issue arrest warrants for Gaddafi and his son for "Crimes against humanity".

According to reports I read, this is happening due to pressure from British, French and US capitalism.  These three imperialist powers want the UN to conduct an investigation in to Gaddafi's crimes which are considered to include murder, unlawful detention, the use of cluster bombs and rape. Amnesty International is also supporting the investigation.

The UN passed a resolution in February, Resolution 1970, that gave NATO the authority to use force to protect civilians. The resolution also forbade Gaddafi and his family from leaving the country, froze their assets and instituted an arms embargo.  The weapons that the British have been selling him will have to find another home.

The ICC is a capitalist tribunal.  A tribunal where the former members of this exclusive club that have overstepped their bounds or have become an embarrassment are given the appropriate punishment.  The US supporting this trial would be a bit of hypocrisy as it pretty much ignores this court as it too has been found guilty of some serious infractions on occasion such as the mining of Managua's harbor.

Had Bin Laden been put on trial, something that would have been good for all of us to see and witness, US capitalism would certainly not have entrusted him to the World Court.  The US military industrial complex does not even allow its own citizens to try those it considers criminals and against US national interests for fear that the evidence obtained by torture might not hold up in a trial by civilian jury.  Trusted military officers from the ruling class are best suited to make these decisions in private.

Gaddafi is a nasty character of that there is no doubt.  But many of the allies and friends of US, British and French imperialism are nasty characters.  We have to see how our own class sees this; how the workers of the world who are our potential allies in the struggle to maintain our own standard of living and freedoms judge such actions.

Before British or US workers support Gaddafi being tried by any agency, we would have to ask what about the bigger fish?  Gaddafi, as far as I am concerned is a murderer and thug.  But before him must come Bush, Obama, Rumsfeld, Powell, Blair, Wolfowitz, the master killer Kissinger and a few others who make Gaddafi look like small potatoes. If we don't raise this, we will not have any credibility in the eyes of millions of workers throughout the world.  As I have written many times before; what about the three million Vietnamese?  The US military dropped dioxin on their food and their communities. On civilians!   Vietnamese children are  being born deformed today because of this, and Kissinger was in the thick of it, bears a huge responsibility for it.  600,000 civilians were killed by the US carpet bombing in the illegal war on Cambodia. Kissinger said of the Iraq Iran war that the US and other powers instigated that it would be great of they could "both lose".

What about the Israeli siege of Gaza and the concentration camp itself?  This is a crime against humanity yet the US president Barack Obama is wishing the Zionist regime a "happy birthday" today and gives it arms, the most sophisticated weaponry and money that allows it to perpetuate this crime against humanity.

These memories are not foremost in our minds because it didn't or isn't happening to our families, our children; 911 did and look at the response. Countless thousands, more than a million civilians have died due to the US invasion of Iraq that was based on complete lies.  Where are the liars?  They are wealthy, safe and living a prosperous secure life in these United States.

If we do not condemn these killers and openly recognize them as such then our condemnations of the Gaddafi's and Bin Laden's of this world will have no credibility, will win no support and we will be seen as hypocrites, that our "killers" are not killers at all but freedom fighters, that the lives of Americans, British, French people are worth more than others.

All of these murderers should be put on trial including Gaddafi and other less influential ones.  But they should be tried by workers, by workers' tribunals. The diplomacy of the bourgeois is a farce.  The trials, the justice the morality of the bourgeois is a farce.

This is what we must raise as we struggle to build a genuine democratic socialist world, a global federation of socialist states, because it is only by ending the rotten system of production we call capitalism can we end permanently the wars, poverty and environmental degradation that is a product of this system and the rise of the Kissingers, Bin Ladens and Gaddafis of this world that accompany it.