Cannes: Director Calls for Trial of ‘War Criminals’ Bush and Blair

Director Ken Loach is at the Cannes Film Festival to show his Iraqi war film titled Route Irish, which of course gave him the perfect opportunity to spew his ridiculous opinions all over the red carpet.

Loach called for the “war criminals” George W. Bush and Tony Blair to be tried for launching the invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. He stated:

“We have to keep pursuing Blair, Bush and the others until we have them in the dock. It’s certainly true that the people who started the war, who are war criminals, have not been called to account.”

Loach’s movie, Route Irish, is in the running for the festival’s Palme d’Or top prize. It’s about a former SAS officer who joins a private security contracter, goes to Iraq, sees soldiers murdering civilians and blah blah blah. You know the rest. It’s a shit movie that will probably win awards for making soldiers look like undisciplined killing machines.

What a douchebag.

Source: Cannes hears call for ‘war criminals’ Bush, Blair to face trial [AFP]