The bill H.J.Res. 114 (107th): Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 is often called the Iraq War Resolution, or, the Iraq Resolution, or, the Iraq AUMF.
The resolution authorized President Bush to use the Armed Forces of the United States "as he determines to be necessary and appropriate" in order to "defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq; and enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions regarding Iraq.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution
There were serious legal questions surrounding the launching of the war against Iraq and the Bush Doctrine of preemptive war in general. On 16 September 2004, Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations, said of the invasion, "I have indicated it was not in conformity with the UN Charter. From our point of view, from the Charter point of view, it was illegal.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
Since the Korean War of the early 1950s, waging such a war of aggression is a crime under the customary international law. ...
Wars without international legality (e.g. not out of self-defense nor sanctioned by the United Nations Security Council) can be considered wars of aggression; however, this alone usually does not constitute the definition of a war of aggression; certain wars may be unlawful but not aggressive (a war to settle a boundary dispute where the initiator has a reasonable claim, and limited aims, is one example).
The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which followed World War II, called the waging of aggressive war "essentially an evil thing...to initiate a war of aggression...is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_aggression
The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_principles#Principle_III
The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under international law:
(a) Crimes against peace:
(i) Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
(ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_principles#Principle_VI
Hillary Clinton sided with George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and most Republicans by voting for this. She was an accomplice before the fact. Here are some more co-conspirators on that vote:
| R | John McCain |
| D | Joseph Lieberman |
| D | Zell Miller |
| R | Mitch McConnell |
| R | Trent Lott |
| R | Chuck Hagel |
| D | Hillary Clinton |
| R | Jesse Helms |
| R | Rick Santorum |
| R | Arlen Specter |
| R | Strom Thurmond |
| R | Bill Frist |
| R | Fred Thompson |
| R | Phil Gramm |
| R | Kay Hutchinson |
| R | Orrin Hatch |
| R | George Allen |
| R | John Warner |
Bernie Sanders sided with Barack Obama and most Democrats by voting against this. Here is some more of his company on this vote:
| D | Barbara Boxer |
| D | Bob Graham |
| D | Daniel Inouye |
| D | Richard Durbin |
| D | Barbara Mikulski |
| D | Paul Sarbanes |
| D | Ted Kennedy |
| D | Carl Levin |
| D | Paul Wellstone |
| R | Lincoln Chafee |
| I | Jim Jeffords |
| D | Patrick Leahy |
| D | Patty Murray |
| D | Robert Byrd |
| D | Russell Feingold |
| R | Ron Paul |
| D | Nancy Pelosi |
| D | Barney Frank |
| D | Charles Rangel |
| D | Dennis Kucinich |
| D | Shelia Jackson Lee |
| I | Bernie Sanders |
| D | Tammy Baldwin |
| D | 120 more Democrats |
Sources for the votes:
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/107-2002/h455
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/107-2002/s237
George W Bush has never been tried, much less convicted, for war crimes because:
It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and waging that war.
— Ramsey Clark, U.S. Attorney General in the administration of Lyndon Johnson.
http://deoxy.org/wc/warcrime.htm
Bernie voted against it. Hillary voted for it.
Are you ready to forgive and endorse George W Bush’s War Crimes by voting for one of his accomplices to be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States?
I’m not ready to forget, forgive or endorse war crimes or their enablers. I support Bernie.