Rumsfeld sued for war crimes
Civil rights group brings war crimes suit against RumsfeldBERLIN: Civil rights activists filed a suit Tuesday asking German prosecutors to open a war crimes investigation of outgoing U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a host of other officials for their alleged roles in abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo Bay.
The 220-page suit was sent to federal prosecutors by U.S. and German attorneys under a German law that allows the prosecution of war crimes regardless of where they were committed. It alleges that Rumsfeld personally ordered and condoned torture.
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Rumsfeld Could Face Fate Worse than Justice
Imagine if you can that Donald Rumsfeld may have ordered acts so dastardly inhumane as to patently violate the laws of the United States, the Geneva Convention and frankly even the laws of every civilized nation in the history of the world. Imagine he knowingly, willfully broke the constitution, created a false war under imaginary premises, then tortured to death many of the rebels resistant to it, and all in the name of generating an atmosphere of fear for no reason other than to perpetuate the selfish policies of his friends and co-workers.
And I say imagine, because much of it is speculation - Much, for sure, but not all.
No matter what you believe, I imagine critics, advocates pundits and personal assistants alike can agree that he's got more information than he'd ever admit to, which sadly leaves just one option, and I hope you're sitting down, because this nefarious notion defies all but the maddest of imaginations.
Let's kidnap that clown, drag him off to a nation unknown, and waterboard his sorry soul until he tells us what we want to know. He's no longer as protected as he used to be, and those protecting him have a fraction of the power they had just a week ago, so I say let's do it. Surely there's a nation out there with the resource to capture the war criminal so we can drag him to within an inch of his life to get the confession we need, right?
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Once he's captured and quasi-tortured, I'm sure he'll confess to a number of crimes, and that's okay because he's probably guilty, otherwise he wouldn't be accused. That's the litmus test for detainees in United States custody, and that's the standard by which he deserves to be treated. I'm confident that within a few brief sessions of aggressive interrogation he would admit to the willful tortures at Unites States facilities, the fact that he knew better, and a wide variety of other crimes too.
And the best thing about these interrogation methods is that I'm sure he'd likewise confess to knowing about the events of 9/11 in advance, that there was never a reason to attack Iraq, and his personal complicity in the Spanish Inquisition, the Bubonic Plague and maybe even the crucifixion of Christ. What can I say, it's a powerful method of information extraction, and nothing is too good for my main man Donny.
I doubt any Germany court will dare to sue Rumsfeld,... there goes justice. :(
The 220-page suit was sent to federal prosecutors by U.S. and German attorneys under a German law that allows the prosecution of war crimes regardless of where they were committed. It alleges that Rumsfeld personally ordered and condoned torture.
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Rumsfeld Could Face Fate Worse than Justice
Imagine if you can that Donald Rumsfeld may have ordered acts so dastardly inhumane as to patently violate the laws of the United States, the Geneva Convention and frankly even the laws of every civilized nation in the history of the world. Imagine he knowingly, willfully broke the constitution, created a false war under imaginary premises, then tortured to death many of the rebels resistant to it, and all in the name of generating an atmosphere of fear for no reason other than to perpetuate the selfish policies of his friends and co-workers.
And I say imagine, because much of it is speculation - Much, for sure, but not all.
No matter what you believe, I imagine critics, advocates pundits and personal assistants alike can agree that he's got more information than he'd ever admit to, which sadly leaves just one option, and I hope you're sitting down, because this nefarious notion defies all but the maddest of imaginations.
Let's kidnap that clown, drag him off to a nation unknown, and waterboard his sorry soul until he tells us what we want to know. He's no longer as protected as he used to be, and those protecting him have a fraction of the power they had just a week ago, so I say let's do it. Surely there's a nation out there with the resource to capture the war criminal so we can drag him to within an inch of his life to get the confession we need, right?
[...]
Once he's captured and quasi-tortured, I'm sure he'll confess to a number of crimes, and that's okay because he's probably guilty, otherwise he wouldn't be accused. That's the litmus test for detainees in United States custody, and that's the standard by which he deserves to be treated. I'm confident that within a few brief sessions of aggressive interrogation he would admit to the willful tortures at Unites States facilities, the fact that he knew better, and a wide variety of other crimes too.
And the best thing about these interrogation methods is that I'm sure he'd likewise confess to knowing about the events of 9/11 in advance, that there was never a reason to attack Iraq, and his personal complicity in the Spanish Inquisition, the Bubonic Plague and maybe even the crucifixion of Christ. What can I say, it's a powerful method of information extraction, and nothing is too good for my main man Donny.
I doubt any Germany court will dare to sue Rumsfeld,... there goes justice. :(