I ask once again : Why does the Bush Administration need to commit war crimes?

Belgium said Saturday it has decided to scrap a controversial war crimes law which has seen cases launched against President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said his new government, sworn in Saturday, has decided as one of its first acts to scrap the law which has angered the United States.
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The 1993 law gave Belgian courts the power to try war crimes cases no matter where they were committed.

In future, the right to launch cases would be restricted to Belgians or people resident in the country. All cases apart from those involving Belgians would be dropped, he said.

The norms of international immunity would also be respected. Any cases that were launched would take into account Belgium’s agreements with NATO allies and other European Union members.

So lemme get this straight. The Bush Administration’s problem with the law wasn’t that Belgium’s definition of “war crimes” was too strict but that it could be used against non-Belgians and that Belgium didn’t recognize the U.S.’s immunity from war crimes prosecution? The way the article was written, you’d think that Belgium was the one being unreasonable, when the real problem is that the United States doesn’t want to be forced to obey the laws that we’re vigorously enforcing on others.