The International Criminal Court objective is to hold accountable and bring to justice individuals responsible for mass murder, genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes (read more here). The court was created in July 1998 in Rome and entered into force in April 2002, taking seat in The Hague in the Netherlands. The US, in its neo-conservatist commitment to American global leadership, nullified its previous ratification and is now gathering support for impunity agreements, that is, Bush wants all US citizens to be exempted from prosecution in the court. Already 32 countries have been duped in agreeing on US immunity or agreed in exchange for reciprocity due to their own bad human rights record (ex. Israel, Rwanda, D.R.Congo, Siera Leone, Romania, Albania and maybe soon Latvia). On top of creating a dangerous precedent in 'unsigning' a previously signed international agreement, the US proves again it has no intention to support human rights justice and democracy on on global scale.. (Rome Statute, ICC)