Bush, Blair escape justice due to lack of law: Pundit

Press TV has interviewed Jim Brann, with the Stop the War Coalition from London, and Frederick Peterson, a congressional defense policy advisor from New York, to discuss war crimes charges against former US President George W. Bush and British ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair over the invasion of Iraq.

Brann says the United States was aware of Iraq’s war crimes during the eight-year imposed war on Iran, but that American officials kept silent on Iraqis’ use of weapons of mass destruction against Iranian people.

British and US authorities had made their firm decision to go to a war with Iraq before an international group determined whether or not weapons of mass destruction existed in the Arab country, he notes.

The anti-war activist argues a claim by former British Premier Tony Blair that he did not know the reality about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is “simply a brazen lie,” adding a document dating back to September 2002 proves that Iraq did not have any WMDs.

Pointing to a lack of laws to bring Bush and Blair to justice, Brann maintains the US and the UK “have no law implementing prohibition on the crime of aggression” in both countries.

Peterson, for his part, believes “national leaders should be held responsible for their actions,” adding that Bush and Blair decided to go to war against Iraq based on their knowledge and information.

He also says former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein sought weapons of mass destruction and used chemical weapons against Iranians and his own fellow Iraqi people.

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