News that the Netherlands has charged one of it's citizens with war crimes resulting from Saddam's war against the Kurds could be dangerous.
Could this establish a pattern of various national courts charging people with War Crimes....for wars that "went bad" ....or wars with which the prosecutors did "not agree?"
If so, eventually it might be impossible for American military and civilian leaders to travel to certain countries....out of fear of being arrested for war crimes.
Clearly, this was one reason why the US did not support the International War Crimes Tribunal...... But, could a nation-by-nation "free lance version" of a war crimes tribunal be even worse....?
Most of the world was dead set against Dubya's war in Iraq.
....And if it goes baddly, as it seems to be doing, there could be a hue and cry for punishment of those Americans who started this "unjust war."
And that could include Dubya, Rummy, Wolfie, Condi, Colin and many others.
Dubya could be in Dutch if we see more attempts to bring "war criminals" to justice in places like the Netherlands.
