Orville_third
Banned
First bit: Dead wrong. Canada knew at the time that the WMD claim was false. The uranium claim was proven false within 24 hours. Ask the former UN Ambassador.I'm not in any way fan of Cheney or the Bush Administration (or Obama for that matter), but this would be the height of folly for Canada. If by "war crimes" we are referring to the invasion of Iraq, the evidence for NBC weapons was supported by intelligence agencies in Britain, France, and Isreal at the least. Furthermore Iraqi officials themselves were saying that Saddam was still attempting to acquire nuclear weapons. If this is brought to the courts then a lot of very high ranking officials get muddied and Canada becomes very unpopular very quickly.
If by "war crimes" we are instead referring to rendition & torture than even more nations are complicit; including but not at all limited to...Germany, Poland, Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the ex-Soviet Stans, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia (heck, pretty much every Arab Gulf state...including by some claims, Iran), Australia, and possibly Russia and China. Given that some officials in Canada also knew about this program and lent assistance it will not end well for Canada. Canada will become isolated and mistrusted throughout the globe. Arresting Cheney, and Bush and Obama may be the morally right things to do, but it would have some very nasty political fall out for all involved.
Benjamin
http://www.theworld.org/2013/03/why-canada-said-no-to-the-iraq-war/
(That doesn't count the reports from UNSCOM, IAEA and Iraqi sources...or Hussein Kamil's defection.)
Second bit: Overlooked by most, but true.