John McCain Quotes

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.

Tony Blair is a war criminal.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.

The United States normally punishes war crimes as such only if their committed by enemy nationals.

There can be no deal, no amnesty for war crimes.

It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.

Bush, as far as I'm concerned, is a war criminal. With Trump, we have no idea. Right now it's just a freak show.

The alternative position to whether torture is acceptable - that's not an alternative position, that's barbarism. The question here is not whether torture is acceptable or whether it works. It should be simply seen as a war crime. There's no other position on torture.

On November 7, 2006, Cafferty called Donald Rumsfeld "an obnoxious jerk and war criminal".

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals.

Undoubtedly the war with Iraq was a tragedy. I think it was also a crime.

Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.

To those acting against peace, civilization and the world order: We will oppose you.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

Putin could no more survive returning Crimea to Ukraine than Bibi Netanyahu could survive giving East Jerusalem back to Jordan.

If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.

The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war.