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Date: March 25, 2007 8:25:52 PM PDT
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Subject: Spain Joins Germany, Italy in Condemning Bush for Iraq
Judge in Spain says
it's time to prosecute
Bush & Blair for war crimes
Jane Barrett
20 Mar 2007 15:41:59 GMT
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20577834.htm
MADRID, March 20 (Reuters) - The judge who tried to jail Chile's
former dictator Augusto Pinochet said on Tuesday it was time to
hold U.S. President George W. Bush and his allies to account for
waging war in Iraq.
In an opinion piece in the newspaper El Pais, published on the
fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion, Spanish judge Baltasar
Garzon said the war was "one of the most sordid and unjustifiable
episodes in recent human history".
"We should look more deeply into the possible criminal
responsibility of the people who are, or were, responsible for this
war and see whether there is sufficient evidence to make them
answer for it," Garzon wrote.
"There is enough of an argument in 650,000 deaths for this
investigation and inquiry to start without more delay," he said.
Garzon, who became famous in 1999 when he tried to extradite
Pinochet from Britain and try him for crimes against humanity, was
particularly critical of the former Spanish government, a major
backer of the Iraq invasion.
"Those who joined the U.S. president in the war against Iraq have
as much or more responsibility than him because, despite having
doubts and biased information, they put themselves in the hands of
the aggressor to carry out an ignoble act of death and destruction
that continues to this day," he said.
In February, Spain's former leader Jose Maria Aznar said he now
knew Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction but "the
problem was not having been clever enough to know earlier."
Garzon wrote: "If he didn't know enough, he should be asked why he
didn't act prudently, giving United Nations inspectors more leeway
instead of doing the opposite in total submission and fidelity to
President Bush."
Gaspar Llamazares, head of the left-wing party Izquierda Unida,
said he would present a motion to the Spanish parliament that
leaders behind the war should face international tribunals.
"People cannot be allowed to make decisions that cause hundreds of
thousands of victims, fail to recognise their errors and not have
to answer to a court," said Llamazares, whose party is allied to
the ruling Socialist party.
Garzon, who took a sabbatical last year to study international
terrorism, said the Iraq war had helped incite hatred and garner
more support for terrorist training camps.
"In some way, with a terrible lack of awareness, we have been and
are helping this monster grow more and more and strengthen by the
minute so it is probably invincible," he said.
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