What is possible today may not be true of tomorrow, and what we now know about widely suspected violations of international law by GWB&co, is likely to pale before what we will learn soon after GWB&co leaves office. Even if GWB&co pardons themselves and the Obama administration is super reluctant to prosecute GWB&co for war crimes, we cannot look through the lens of what we know now to view what we may know
six months or more from now.
Even if some other countries decide to feel froggie and try to prosecute any officials of GWB&co, there may be some not inconsequential US resistance I for one would not endorse, and that will be matter for time to tell regarding international pressure to prosecute GWB&co.
But then again, the viable paragraph from the provided links is, " This doesn't mean it will extradite Cheney and Co. to stand trial abroad. But at the very least, the threat of such suits could soon force Bush aides to think twice before buying plane tickets. "The world is getting smaller for these guys," says Ratner, "and they'll have to check with their lawyers very carefully before they travel." Jail time it isn't?but it may be some justice nonetheless. " And the other possible message is, when we in the USA actually find more about their gag a maggot torture policies, a vast majority of the American people may start to support their deportation to the Hague, leaving a part of GWB&co absolutely no refuge in the entire world for international war criminal scoundrels.
The mere fact that we, in the USA, are not there yet, may not be true six months or a year from now.