Saddam captured

[Kitsune]

Originally posted by Undertoad
In order to be in compliance with the ICC we would have had to change the US Constitution to allow internationals to override the first and fourth amendments.

Well, we sure didn't have a problem with allowing an outside system to have the ability to override the US Constitution when we gave in to the deals of the World Trade Organization.

...and you're right -- it is a bad thing that the ICC has the ability to do this. But the problem is that by unsigning ourselves from the treaty, we got a good deal of bad press from it. Immensly bad press.

You ever wonder why so many populations in the world tend to dislike us? Its because, for years, we've claimed that we hate people who violate human rights and commit war crimes. We've gone into countries under the banner that we are going in to stop various criminals and help out people. But, for some reason, we tend to ignore a lot of human rights violators and war criminals. You don't see us marching into Saudi Arabia to free those people from the tyranny of a government that punishes its citizens by removing various body parts and torturing them. We also aren't going there to stop a government that we know funded the terrorists that commited the 9/11 acts. We aren't even going in to North Korea to stop a country that is openly threatening others with nuclear war. We also don't even blink when we do business with a communist Asian country that is violently against free speech. And there sure are a lot of ignored countries in Africa where people are murdered by the thousands when some leader tells one tribe to kill the other with any sharp object they can find.

...but we go into Iraq and claim that its because Saddam is a really nasty guy and is hurting a lot of people. This raises suspicion with the world and its why a lot of people yell that we are doing it for monetary gain and not really for justice. Even worse is that because of our rather shady dealings in the past (Hello? We INSTALLED the man we just captured.) the rest of the world tends to think that we actually do commit war crimes and that we do support violating leaders with money and weapons.

And the unsigning that Bush did in 2002, while it saved us from having citizens detained, appeared as proof to the world that we really are cheating bastards and it underlined the notion that we go where we want to, not because we're out for justice, but because we are greedy.

That's why I think that handling Saddam Internationally instead of locally is a good idea and that it might actually repair some of the damage we've done.