NationStates Jolt Archive

Not in the US--they'll all make out like bandits, I'm sure. They'll have soft landings at major corporations just like the people from any administration.

I'm more interested in what happens to their ability to travel the world, and since there are a lot of people from outside the US on here, I figure it's a good place to speculate.

Specifically Cheney and Rumsfeld--will they be able to travel freely after 2008 or is there a chance they'll wind up in the Hague facing war crimes trials if they try it? The notion is not unprecedented--Henry Kissinger is very careful about where he goes to make sure that no extradition treaties catch him up for his Vietnam actions. (I'm leaving Bush out of this because he didn't travel the world before he was President and I see no reason why he'd suddenly want to start afterward.)

Will they be able to travel with impunity, or will they have to become Kissingers, always making sure that there won't be an Interpol agent knocking at their door, ready to whisk them away to face the World Court?

Honestly, I doubt that they'd be unable to travel throughout the West at the very least. The current governments aren't interested in escalating the transatlantic disagreement again, even when the Bush administration is out of office. It wouldn't be worth the consequences and it would water down any charges against the real mass murderers like Milosevic and co.

my crystal ball is saying rumsfeld is screwed. i think there aren't a lot of countries willing to indite the president or vice president of the US, but a cabinet secratary, even a high profile one, doesn't have the same stigma. hence, i predict that everyone with a bone to pick about US foreign policy will try to take it out on rummy and that, obviously, the US will ignore it completely...