Why the War Crimes?

Harry Shearer has an exploration at Huffington Post of why the Bush regime perpetrated their war crimes.

Essentially, he argues, it was to save face for Bush:

So, an administration that showed a public face that professed a belief that every human life was sacred was prepared to treat innumerable humans as nothing more than fodder for the dot machine, merely to prove that the horrific attack in its eighth month in office couldn't possibly have been its fault.