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‘A chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg has said George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein. Benjamin Ferenccz, who secured convictions for 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating the death squads that killed more than 1 million people, told OneWorld both Bush and Saddam should be tried for starting "aggressive" wars-Saddam for his 1990 attack on Kuwait and Bush for his 2003 invasion of Iraq.

"Nuremberg declared that aggressive war is the supreme international crime," the 87-year-old Ferenccz told OneWorld from his home in New York. He said the United Nations charter, which was written after the carnage of World War II, contains a provision that no nation can use armed force without the permission of the UN Security Council.

Ferenccz said that after Nuremberg the international community realized that every war results in violations by both sides, meaning the primary objective should be preventing any war from occurring in the first place.

He said the atrocities of the Iraq war-from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of dozens of civilians by U.S. forces in Haditha to the high number of civilian casualties caused by insurgent car bombs-were highly predictable at the start of the war.’

Bush & Saddam Should Both Stand Trial

Another crazy about guns...

From the Moscow Times

Chavez Praises Russia and Rifle

By Anna Smolchenko
Staff Writer
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday praised Russia for resisting U.S. pressure to cancel its $1 billion arms deal with his country, and eulogized the Kalashnikov rifle during a meeting with its inventor on a trip to his hometown, Izhevsk.

During the visit, the second to an arms center on Chavez's three-day trip to Russia, he went out of his way to thumb his nose at the United States, which he called "an immoral and cynical empire."

Chavez is expected to sign a $1 billion defense deal for the purchase of Russian fighter jets and helicopters in Moscow on Thursday, when he is also due to meet with President Vladimir Putin.

Chavez's visit to Russia is part of a tour of several countries that are highly critical of the United States, including Belarus and Iran. Chavez has said the tour is aimed at winning support for Venezuela's bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council,

In Izhevsk, Chavez was treated to a tour of the city's armaments hot spots. He passed on a chance to test out the rifles at a firing range, but watched rifles being assembled at the IzhMash arms factory, where the sight of a young woman quickly assembling a Kalashnikov had him "going crazy."

"I would like to thank Russia, the producer of armaments, because Russia has helped to sever the blockade that was tied by the United States around Venezuela," Chavez said on his arrival at the Izhevsk airport Wednesday morning, Interfax reported.

read more of this at the Moscow Times