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| Breaking News: Germany to charge Rumsfeld; ...re: prisoner abuse scandal | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 10 2006, 11:21 AM (158 Views) | |
| The 89th Key | Nov 10 2006, 11:21 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,...1557842,00.html |
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| kenny | Nov 10 2006, 11:39 AM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Why should the USA be above accountability? This is an excellent development! |
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| Mark | Nov 10 2006, 11:40 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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___.___ (_]===* o 0 When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells | |
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| kenny | Nov 10 2006, 11:50 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Payback's a bitch!
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| ivorythumper | Nov 10 2006, 11:50 AM Post #5 |
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
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Apparently they don't understand the concept of "sovereign nation". |
| The dogma lives loudly within me. | |
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| John D'Oh | Nov 10 2006, 11:52 AM Post #6 |
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MAMIL
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Not the first time Germany has had a bit of a problem with that concept.
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| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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| Daniel\ | Nov 10 2006, 11:58 AM Post #7 |
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Fulla-Carp
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And that's probably what they think about us. |
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| Jolly | Nov 10 2006, 12:38 PM Post #8 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Why? Have we meddled in the inner workings of the German government? Other than to shoulder the lion's share of protecting the Fulda Gap? |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| QuirtEvans | Nov 10 2006, 12:45 PM Post #9 |
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
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Some people seem to have the ridiculous notion that kidnapping someone on foreign soil interferes with their right to sovereign government. And they have the even more ridiculous notion that they have the right to protect their own citizens from abuse at the hands of a foreign government. Silly foreigners. After all, we'd be just fine about it if the Italian or German Secret Service kidnapped someone on U.S. soil, rather than going through the appropriate legal process. And we never, ever go to bat for a U.S. citizen charged with a crime in a foreign country. :rolleyes: Some people lack ... perspective. Their position shifts dramatically depending on whether it's their ox that's being gored. |
| It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010. | |
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| AlbertaCrude | Nov 10 2006, 01:06 PM Post #10 |
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Bull-Carp
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No wait a moment, the German gov't is not a Plaintiff in the case. The Plaintiffs are a bunch of allegedly abused Iraqis and a Saudi who have "the support of Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, a U.S.-based non-profit helping to bring the legal action in Germany". They had to shop around for a jurisdiction that had a law on the books that would theoretically enable them to file a criminal claim. If the German Prosecutor chooses not to accept the claim it's a non starter. The problem is not with Germany or even the Plaintiffs, but rather with the treasonous actions of the US based NGO, The Center for Constitutional Rights, its President Michael Ratner and Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Janis Karpinski who presumably has an axe to grind with the Pentagon and Rumsfeld. |
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