{"id":6019,"date":"2011-04-24T09:48:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T14:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6019"},"modified":"2011-04-24T09:48:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T14:48:54","slug":"elbaradei-suggests-war-crimes-probe-of-bush-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/04\/24\/elbaradei-suggests-war-crimes-probe-of-bush-team\/","title":{"rendered":"ElBaradei Suggests War Crimes Probe Of Bush Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes from the AP report <a title=\"ElBaradei report\" href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_ELBARADEI_MEMOIR\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>ElBaradei Suggests War Crimes Probe Of Bush Team<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Iraq war taught him that &#8220;deliberate deception was not limited to small countries ruled by ruthless dictators,&#8221; ElBaradei writes in &#8220;The Age of Deception,&#8221; being published Tuesday by Henry Holt and Company.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was aghast at what I was witnessing,&#8221; ElBaradei writes of the official U.S. attitude before the March 2003 invasion, which he calls &#8220;aggression where there was no imminent threat,&#8221; a war in which he accepts estimates that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed.<\/p>\n<p>In such a case, he suggests, the World Court should be asked to rule on whether the war was illegal. And, if so, &#8220;should not the International Criminal Court investigate whether this constitutes a `war crime&#8217; and determine who is accountable?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes from the AP report ElBaradei Suggests War Crimes Probe Of Bush Team. The Iraq war taught him that &#8220;deliberate deception was not limited to small countries ruled by ruthless dictators,&#8221; ElBaradei writes in &#8220;The Age of Deception,&#8221; being published Tuesday by Henry Holt and Company. . . . &#8220;I was aghast at what I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6020,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6019\/revisions\/6020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}