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A US-based nonprofit organization has urged the international criminal court to investigate former president Joe Biden and two of his cabinet members for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

The request, submitted by the Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) last month but made public by the group on Monday, urges the ICC to investigate Biden, as well as former secretary of state Antony Blinken and former defense secretary Lloyd Austin, for their “accessorial roles in aiding and abetting, as well as intentionally contributing to, Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza”.

Dawn’s 172-page submission, which the group says was prepared with the support of ICC-registered lawyers and other war crimes experts, alleges that the former US officials violated articles of the Rome statute, the court’s founding charter, in their support for Israel.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (17 children)

It's fucking horrifying how many people just glaze over him circumventing congress to "sell" arms to Israel when there was publicly available evidence that US arms were being used in a genocide.

He openly and flagrantly violated US and international laws, and all it did was make it harder to convince people trump wasn't as dangerous as he is.

Lowering our standards doesn't get more Dem voters, but it costs enough for someone as ahitty as trump to get elected twice.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

US Presidents being War Criminals is a long and celebrated tradition. Biden is not the first or the last US president to follow that tradition.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Throw em all in prison then. Justice plays no favorites.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago

Go ahead, try to throw one in prison. Justice is a lie.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

You really haven't been paying attention to the news lately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I hardly think what has been occurring in the news counts as justice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

The fact that Donald Trump a) was allowed to run for president despite being disqualified by the 14th amendment and b) is not in prison shows that justice does in fact play favorites.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

No, it shows that justice does not exist in the United States.

But this is just semantics, we agree that something rotten has happened.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Yep.

Obama is the closest thing to a "good" president in my lifetime...

Still a fucking war criminal.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/14/13577464/obama-farewell-speech-torture-drones-nsa-surveillance-trump

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