I had to smile when I learned that Mr George W. Bush's visit to Vienna had resulted in a large number of posters appearing in that City showing a photograph of Mr Bush with the legend "The Mass Murderer".

We all know that he fits that description perfectly, but what we do not really know is why he has come to the European Union meeting of heads of government. There is vague talk in the media of his coming to "patch up" relations with the E.U., but it looks unlikely that he will do anything to satisfy the very reasonable European demands that he should close his concentration and death camp at Guantánamo Bay. Even his servile Scottish side-kick has dared to suggest that perhaps it should be closed forthwith, and other heads of government have spoken out more clearly against this "juridical black hole". 

As a European, I am disgusted and ashamed that such a criminal as this, and his wife, should have been greeted so warmly by the Austrian Chancellor, whose country currently occupies the presidency of the Union, and allowed into meetings of the E.U., shortly after his fellow criminal, the former Gauleiter of Jerusalem, had been welcomed by several of these same European "leaders". 

Mr Bush is only wanted by most Europeans in the dock at The Hague, together with his acolytes, and not wanted at meetings where all he does is to demand that other countries should follow his criminal lead in destroying freedom and democracy in any country too weak to resist his military might. At the moment I deeply regret that he has succeeded in persuading the E.U. to join him in punishing the Palestinians for having the guts to show their disgust at being constant victims of constant attacks by the invading enemy storm troopers, unconditionally supported by the Bush régime and paid for by the taxpayers in the U.S.A. 

It would be a wonderful thing if the 25 heads of government of the E.U. were to inform Mr Bush clearly that he is not wanted in Europe, except in the dock in The Hague, and that he should stay forever in his own home state of Connecticut or in his adopted state of Texas. He should be warned that if he strays again into any other part of the world he risks immediate arrest and being charged with, and punished for, his hideous crimes. 

Such a pariah should never be allowed to visit any other part of the world, and he should be made to understand that, once he reaches the end of his period as head of a powerful state, he is open to arrest under the Nuremberg Principles for his terrorist crimes. Former heads of state or of government are specifically not exempt from such charges and punishment under international law.

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Robert Thompson is a regular columnist on Axis of Logic. His analyses and writing on Axis of Logic can be found in the Axis section, Letters from France.  He offers refreshing perspectives on international relations with a European perspective. He is a French citizen and a retired Avocat (Trial Lawyer) at the Boulogne-sur-Mer Bar, living with his wife in a small village in Northern France.   He was born at Leek (North Staffordshire, England) in 1931, and, after reading Jurisprudence at Oxford University, he became an English Solicitor.   He later went to work at the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris.   There he was Director in charge of the Legal Department and also Secretary General of the Court of Arbitration, the most important international commercial arbitration centre on the world.   While there, he became the I.C.C. Director in charge of relations with the Arab states, where he travelled for professional reasons, and he worked towards legal cooperation with the countries then within the Comecon.  Robert can be reached via e-mail at: robert@axisoflogic.com