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> Was GW Bush convicted of any war crimes? If not, then he isn't a war criminal.

No, if he wasn't convicted, he is not a convict and a government grounded in the rule of law cannot treat him as a criminal.

Conviction doesn't retroactively create the crime.



No. But until then he is only an accused war criminal.




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