In early 2011 the Boston Tea Party National Committee passed a resolution supporting War Crimes trials “for every person that has violated the ‘law of war’.” The BTP added that any potential War Crimes trials should be privately funded, instead of being paid for with taxpayer money.

It seems that someone listened, because on November 23, 2011 former U.S. president George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair were found guilty of war crimes by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal after a four day hearing in Malaysia. The tribunal was initiated by former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who is also President of the Perdana Global Peace Foundation, and was modeled after the 1967 tribunal in Sweden and Denmark that found the U.S. guilty of aAct went against the decision in the Nicaragua case.”

“The best ethics course is to handcuff one of the bastards.”

George W. Bush, speaking about Enron during a meeting with his Corporate Responsibility Task Force. Published by Wall Street Journal, later republished by Buffalo News and Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds By William S. Laufer. (July 12, 2002)

The judges agreed and ruled “[t]he 2003 invasion of Iraq was an unlawful act of aggression and an international crime… They acted in flagrant violation of international law of war and peace… We therefore find that the charge against the two accused is proved beyond reasonable doubt.”

The tribunal ordered that Bush and Blair’s name be entered in a register of war criminals, urged that they be recognized as such under the Rome Statute,