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by dragonwriter 2649 days ago
> ICC has no jurisdiction in the United States.

ICC has jurisdiction over war crimes committed in Afghanistan after it's accession to the Rome Statute.

> Imagine European idealists prosecuting Clinton, Bush and Obama for "war crimes"?

The Prosecutor of the ICC is Gambian (the former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice of Gambia), and the Deputy Prosecutor is Canadian, so you should have no fear of European idealists...