There are only two of the five permanent nuclear nations State Party members.

The United States of America is ranked along side of Russia and China. That is an enormous disgrace.

Any and all sanctions placed against the ICC should be litigated within the court system of the USA. The International Criminal Court is a moral force in the world. Countries and their people globally look to the court for recognition of the sanctity of life. The USA's leaders should never be outside the circle of the most moral positions of governments in the world. There is no pretending. There is only living it.

The USA should be in lock step with our allies and not our enemies. There are treaties enforcing it.

  State party

  Signatory that has not ratified 

  State party that subsequently withdrew its membership 

  Signatory that subsequently withdrew its signature 

  Non-state party, non-signatory

The war in Iraq was an illegal war. The moral decline of the USA never stopped. While Bush believed the attacks of September 11, 2001 took the USA into unknown defensive miliary areas, the lack of return to our best moral content was abandoned. We should still stand with our allies and be a member party. 

In the Bush Administration's range of policies (click here) that had negative ramifications for the promotion and respect for international human rights, its approach to the International Criminal Court (ICC) was of particular significance. What was striking was not the Administration's position on the United States' becoming part of the court­-the Clinton Administration also had concerns over joining-but rather the intense, virulent assault that the Bush Administration advanced on the Court. Despite official claims to the contrary, the Bush Administration's approach, which was far more strident during its first term, appeared to be an intensive effort to cripple the Court....