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symbioidljTo avoid war, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Sunday he would favor granting Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and senior Iraqi leaders immunity from possible war crimes prosecution if it would clear the way for their exile.
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The US has always opposed the International Criminal Court, on the basis that it could be "politicized" and they want their soldiers exempt from prosecution, because all those evil regimes will try to come after the American soldiers for war-crimes, and of course, NO American soldier would do something like rape a Japanese girl, and certainly not in time of war...
But now... Oh yes, NOW, the US believes it's ok to grant immunity from the "new Hitler"(the original one, grandpappy(Prescott) Bush helped finance, anyways), and some of his top people, in order for them to leave.
"Do what we want, and you will be free from the reach of justice." Isn't *THIS* politicization? Isn't this the ultimate betrayal of true justice? If Saddam is guilty of war-crimes, shouldn't he be prosecuted? Oh...... I get it... if he is, he might just talk, and he might just tell about how the US gave him a lot of that evil technology, and that would implicate the US. Ah.. OK, Yeah... So, as long as we moral arbiters of truth and right and just, the government of the United States of America, make the decision on who gets prosecuted, it's all OK with the world.
Fucking hypocrites.
-- source:AP
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The US has always opposed the International Criminal Court, on the basis that it could be "politicized" and they want their soldiers exempt from prosecution, because all those evil regimes will try to come after the American soldiers for war-crimes, and of course, NO American soldier would do something like rape a Japanese girl, and certainly not in time of war...
But now... Oh yes, NOW, the US believes it's ok to grant immunity from the "new Hitler"(the original one, grandpappy(Prescott) Bush helped finance, anyways), and some of his top people, in order for them to leave.
"Do what we want, and you will be free from the reach of justice." Isn't *THIS* politicization? Isn't this the ultimate betrayal of true justice? If Saddam is guilty of war-crimes, shouldn't he be prosecuted? Oh...... I get it... if he is, he might just talk, and he might just tell about how the US gave him a lot of that evil technology, and that would implicate the US. Ah.. OK, Yeah... So, as long as we moral arbiters of truth and right and just, the government of the United States of America, make the decision on who gets prosecuted, it's all OK with the world.
Fucking hypocrites.
