Yesterday the the court in Belgrade Yugoslavia upheld the conviction passed by the Milosevic regime that had been passed on fourteen dignitaries. Among this group are Gerhart Schroder Chancelor of Germany, French president Jacques Chirac, former British Prime Minister Robin Cook, current British Prime minister Tony Blair, and, of course former US president Bill "Bubba" Clinton. The dignitaries involved are being called war criminals for the NATO bombing campaign in 1999 in which about 500 civilians died. I can not think of any other time in which a foreign power has charged a US leader with war crimes. According to CNN, the conviction comes through a legal technicality, but it does mean that there may have been very legitimate grounds for this conviciton. This means that many of our current and some of our foreign world leaders in the West are war criminals in some sense. These dignitaries would only be arrested if they set foot on Yugoslav soil, and they could then be arrested by any police officer, at which point they would serve twenty years in prison. The Yugoslav government is hoping to overturn the decision. But just think, we could here:
"Ah did not have sexual relations with that cellmate."