Wednesday, the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to approve a resolution authorizing the United States to strike Syria, a Nuremberg-level war crime.

All Officials Complicit In Taking US To War Against Syria Would Be Guilty of Nuremberg-Level War Crime

“Does this mean that these senators who voted in favor of attacking Syria are complicit in a war crime?” asked Deborah Dupré in Skype. 

Legal expert Alfred Lambremont Webre responded saying, “This is a complex question in a rapidly shifting area of international law, namely the liability for war crimes by nations and officials within a nation. 

“If we take the Nuremberg principles prohibition against aggressive war, it stands to reason that all officials complicit in taking the US into a war of aggression, including knowing legislators, would be guilty of a Nuremberg-level war crime,” Webre said. “Moreover, some authority holds that the nation itself – in this case the United States of America –  may be indicted for the war crime of aggressive war.”

The vote was 10 – 7.

Most of those who voted in favor of illegally attacking Syria, 7 of the 10, were Democrats.

The senators that voted in favor of the resolution, according to the Washington Post, were:

Robert Menendez (D-N.J.)

John McCain (R-Ariz.), 

Bob Corker (R-Tenn.),

Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.),

Benjamin L. Cardin (D-Md.),

Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.),

Christopher Coons (D-Del.),

Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.),

Timothy M. Kaine (D-Va.) and

Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.).

After the vote goes to the full Senate and House, this reporter will list the names of those who approve attacking Syria.

Sources: Washington Post, Personal Communications with Alfred Webre Lambremont