The Washington Post reports the Bush administration has faced wide opposition at the United Nations in its attempt to keep Americans exempted from prosecution of war crimes by the International Criminal Court. On June 30 the current one-year exemption expires. Up until a month ago, the US expected to secure from the UN an indefinite exemption from the court but now it is unclear if Washington can even muster enough voters to extend the current exemption one year. The U.S. treatment of detainees in Iraq is widely cited as a reason not to exempt Americans from the war crimes court. Yesterday Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz said the diplomatic damaged caused by the Abu Ghraib scandal is “enormous.”