'Why the June 30 handover?'

©Beaver County Times/Allegheny Times 2004, 01 July 2004, page A6

Did you ever wonder how the Bush regime came up with the June 30 date to hand over power to an interim Iraqi government?

In 2002, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution that exempted American peacekeepers from international prosecution for war crimes.
The exemption was renewed in 2003 and is set to expire June 30.

The Bush regime needs at least nine of 15 Security Council members to vote "yes" for the exemption to be renewed.

As a result of the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq without U.N. Security Council approval and the abuse of prisoners by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, many members of the Security Council openly expressed their unwillingness to vote to extend the resolution for a third time.

Last week, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan asked Security Council members to oppose the exemption.
France, Germany, Spain and as many as six other countries indicated that they would abstain from voting.

All of this means that after today, the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, could prosecute George W. Bush and American troops for their involvement in Iraq or other parts of the world.

Now, June 30 starts to make sense.
And everybody thought that George W. Bush was stupid.
In an effort to justify the war, George W. Bush convinced less knowledgeable Americans that Iraq was a grave and growing threat to the nation's national security.

George W. Bush stated that Saddam Hussein had ties to al Qaida, was somehow involved in the Sept. 11, 2001, tragedy and had weapons of mass destruction.
It was all a big lie.

Wouldn't it be great to see George W. Bush in a cell next to Slobodan Milosevic?

Nikola (Nick) Drobac
Aliquippa, PA

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