George Monbiot, at The Grauniad^* says it all when he states that, “Making this ruthless liar EU president is a crazy plan. But I’ll be backing Blair.”

He is backing Blair because if he becomes EU President, he must necessarily work from his office in Brussels, and Belgium has acceded to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which means that, unlike in the US and the UK, they can indict him, arrest him, and ship him off to the Hague for trial:

Within the UK, there is no means of prosecuting Blair. In 2006 the law lords decided that the international crime of aggression has not been incorporated into domestic law. But, elsewhere in the world, it has been. In 2006 the professor of international law Philippe Sands warned that “Margaret Thatcher avoids certain countries as a result of the sinking of the Belgrano, and Blair would be advised to do likewise”.

I’m beginning to think that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld should be made EU President too.

^*According to the Wiki, The Guardian, formerly the Manchester Guardian in the UK. It’s nicknamed the Grauniad because of its penchant for typographical errors, “The nickname The Grauniad for the paper originated with the satirical magazine Private Eye. It came about because of its reputation for frequent and sometimes unintentionally amusing typographical errors, hence the popular myth that the paper once misspelled its own name on the page one masthead as The Gaurdian, though many recall the more inventive The Grauniad.”