New Zealand News - NZ - Editorial: US court stance deceitful

I'll point to you Den Beste's latest entry on the ICC to begin with. The American stance is only "deceitful" in the sense that we haven't made clear that we can't take part in the ICC. Even if the President signed it, the Senate would never approve, and even if it approved it, the Supreme Court would strike it down as unconstitutional. It can't be done. The only deceit was by the American representatives who made the Euros think that it could be done.

The deceitfulness of this editorial, meanwhile, is open. It says that the court will be constrained by "facts", but whose facts? Somebody says that the US is responsible for killing a million Iraqi babies? That's not true, but it won't keep someone from bringing Presidents Bush (both of them) and Clinton on charges. And whether the facts are believed depends upon the judges, and anyone should know that. If anyone believed for a second that this sort of thing wouldn't happen, Ariel Sharon being brought up on charges in Belgium shows otherwise.