American workers cannot support Gbagbo being tried for crimes against humanity when Kissinger walks free in the US

Saddam and Qaddafi a distant second to these folks

The Ivorian leader Gbagbo is under investigation apparently. The UN with the help of the French military arrested the Ivorian and 100 of his followers earlier this month and charges of crimes against humanity are being considered. Rights groups had blamed both sides for the violence in the Ivory Coast but it's always small potatoes that get dragged in to this world court and charged with crimes against humanity and stuff.  I don't know enough about the Ivorian leader and I realize that Qaddafi, who is also a nasty guy is being considered as a contestant for the genocide and crimes against humanity prize by folks at the UN and world court no doubt.

But I could not with any confidence agree to such a thing while citizens of the US, Britain and other countries who have committed far more serious crimes, murdered many more victims, walk freely, write autobiography's and give public speeches for which they receive obscene payments.  Bush, Powell, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and the oil tanker lady, Condoleeza Rice are not in line for the crimes of humanity prize, nor is Tony Blair.  And the doctor of death himself, Henry Kissinger is considered a great man that the other thugs look to for advice. 

Compared to these guys, Qaddafi is a bit player.

Kissinger and his friends are responsible for as many as 4 million deaths in Vietnam and children in that country are still being born with deformities due to the dioxin the US sprayed on their food and the population.  The rapacious thirst for profits which is what the Vietnam war was was about, has no bounds.  The US dropped the poisonous chemical on its own troops as well.

In the illegal bombing of Cambodia orchestrated by Kissinger and others, an estimated 350,000 civilians in Laos and 600,000 in Cambodia died. * A quick million there.  And as Christopher Hitchens points out, the raids were illegal and carried out in secret. he described them as a "menu of bombardment" as the code names for the illegal raids were "Breakfast," "Lunch," "Snack," "Dinner," and "Dessert." It's so easy to kill people from 20,000 feet isn't it.

In Indochina between 1968 and 1972 a US Senate Subcommittee estimated that three million civilians were killed, injured or made homeless as the US dropped 4,500,000 tons of high explosive not including the chemical war the US was waging dropping insecticides and pesticides on folks..  Hitchens points out that the estimated tonnage dropped in WW11 was just over 2 million tons.
Kissinger and Nixon also supported the Indonesian slaughter in East Timor what some have termed Genocide, .

The crimes against humanity committed by the folks at the Pentagon are too numerous to mention.  Courts that originate in the capitalist club they call the UN or in the governments of the world are mere political theater.  True justice will take place when the workers, peasants and middle class victims of  imperialist slaughter are the judge, jury and executioner.

At work some co-workers used to ask how I could defend guilty workers.  Given that many were guilty by the bosses standards meant that they were mostly innocent but also, the bosses defend their own so we defend our own.  In a war, nothing is fair so you defend your own side and deal with them internally as you can. How can I tell a Libyan that their guy is bad and suggest the likes of Tony Blair stick them in the dock,  would have no credibility.

I cannot with good conscience condemn Gbagbo, Qaddafi, or the famed Milosevic, all former friends of the folks now condemning them.  A court where the judge and jury line up to hear Henry Kissinger lecture them on world relations has no credibility.

* The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens
Video of the same name here
Sideshow, by William Shawcross is also a good book about the US illegal bombing of Cambodia