{"id":807,"date":"2005-07-01T02:05:49","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T02:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:09:13","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:09:13","slug":"limitless_power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Limitless&#8221; Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zaman.com\/?bl=international&#038;alt=&#038;trh=20050628&#038;hn=21109\" target=\"browser\">Zaman<\/a> Daily News (hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/hurryupharry.bloghouse.net\/archives\/2005\/06\/30\/notsoshocking_verdict.php\" target=\"browser\">Harry<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) composed of various international non-governmental organizations, academics, including professors of law, lawyers and judges have found US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of the war in Iraq. [ed. &#8211; they say this like it&#8217;s a bad thing&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\n<b>&#8230;<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\nBush and Blair were found guilty on the following charges:<\/p>\n<p>\nPrimary charges in symbolic verdict<\/p>\n<p>\nPlanning an aggressive war and implementation by violating the United Nations (UN) Convention and the Nuremberg Principles<\/p>\n<p>\nTargeting Iraqi people and the infrastructure of Iraqi society, using <b>limitless power<\/b> and arms<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>Implementing fatal violence against peaceful demonstrators<\/p>\n<p>\nImplementing torture and ill-treatment on Iraqi soldiers and civilians<\/p>\n<p>\nWillful destruction of the environment during clashes<\/p>\n<p>\nObstructing the right of information and censoring of the media.<\/p>\n<p>\n(emphasis mine)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/007043.php\n\" target=\"browser\">before<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Because on some basic level, we assume that we&#8217;re the TV cowboy, and that the bad guys can fire all the bullets they want and the only thing that will happen is that our authentic Western sidekick will get a hole in his hat. They assume that we&#8217;re omnipotent and omniscient.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Zaman Daily News (hat tip to Harry): The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) composed of various international non-governmental organizations, academics, including professors of law, lawyers and judges have found US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of the war in Iraq. [ed. &#8211; they say this like it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}