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June 18th, 2015 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
Members of the Bush administration are being sued for their involvement in the Iraq War by an international team of lawyers, one of whom was former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark. The team was assembled by Sundus Saleh, an Iraqi single mother.
“The invasion
resulted in the total destruction of a beautiful, peaceful
country,” Saleh told Truthout. “The invasion didn’t destroy
only the country’s infrastructure, buildings and heritage; it
destroyed millions of families and their dreams.”
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Democrat peer
Saleh’s pro bono counsel, San Francisco-based Comar Law, filed an
amicus brief on May 27 urging the US Court of
Appeals on the Ninth Circuit to review facts and statements of
former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick
Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other
high-ranking members of the Bush administration during the Iraq
War.
Former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark told Truthout that
Saleh’s case represents a crucial struggle for anyone concerned
with human rights.
The lawyers on the team are requesting that the US Court of
Appeals hear Saleh’s claim that the US-led Iraq war was illegal
under the international system of law created from the Nuremberg
trials in the wake of World War II.
“Ms. Saleh alleges that the Iraq war constituted ‘aggression’
as defined by the Nuremberg trials in 1946,” Saleh’s lawyer,
Inder Comar, told Truthout. “She is asking the Ninth Circuit
to review the holdings of Nuremberg, which it can do, and to
apply that law to the facts leading up to the war. She is
convinced, as am I, that under Nuremberg, these officials broke
domestic and international law in planning and waging the Iraq
war.”
An additional amicus brief was filed by the Planethood
Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by Benjamin Ferencz,
the last living prosecutor of the Nuremberg trials and advocate
for international rule of law.
Clark argues that the lawsuit is important for the US public and
for the rule of law – the principle that the United States is
based upon.
Saleh’s case asserts that the highest officials of the Bush
administration – including former President Bush himself – waged
a war of aggression when executing the Iraq War. It claims that
they knowingly issued false statements that Iraq had weapons of
mass destruction and ties to Al-Qaeda to manipulate the public
into supporting the war.
READ MORE: Court finds Bush and Blair guilty of war
crimes
Saleh’s suit was dismissed in December 2014 by the United States
District Court for the Northern District of California, ruling
that members of the Bush administration had immunity from a civil
suit.
Her lawyers are now requesting that the Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit overturn that ruling.
Aggressive war was declared as the “supreme international
crime” during the Nuremberg trials that convicted the
leaders of Nazi Germany for committing such crimes. Out of those
trials, which were largely set up by the United States, came a
set of international guidelines called the Nuremberg principles,
which were created to determine what constitutes a war crime.
There have been numerous attempts to bring lawsuits against
President Bush and members of his administration over the war. In
September 2005, a German Court declared that the Iraq War
violated international law.
In 2006, a criminal complaint was filed in Germany against senior
officials, including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and
former CIA Director George Tenet, alleging war crimes. In 2014,
the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights lodged a
criminal complaint against agency heads and high-ranking members
of the Bush administration.
Source Article from http://rt.com/usa/267946-attorney-general-iraq-lawsuit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS
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