Do I look Worried?
Germany Won’t Prosecute Rumsfeld — This is a story all over Europe that has seemingly been suppressed in the USA. Quite amusing. Maybe the story itself is a trick to get Rumsfeld into Germany so he can be arrested!
Germany’s federal prosecutor will not pursue a criminal complaint accusing US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld of war crimes in Iraq.
Even though a German law requires German prosecutors to investigate allegations of war crimes even if they are not committed by Germans or in Germans, German Federal Prosecutor Kay Nehm said US authorities bore the initial responsibility to do so.
He added that his office could only act if US officials failed to do so, but said this was not the case. A US organization called Center for Constitutional Rights had filed the complained against Rumsfeld and other high-ranking officials in Germany for the role they played in torture and abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.
Will Rumsfeld come to Munich?
It was still unclear on Thursday whether Rumsfeld, who is currently in Nice, France for a meeting of NATO defense ministers, would now attend Munich’s international Conference on Security Policy, which is scheduled to begin on Friday.
We’ve seen Bush covering for him in the news, so unless BUsh is impeached, we’ll not be seeing Rummy in court.
In a world where Iraq won the war, you’d see a prosecution and a conviction.
Larely ignored? I think not…did a google news search on this and roughly half the hits were from US new sources. It’s just not that big a deal to most Americans because we know it is just a political ploy by the Germans to make Rummy look bad. If not, I expect shortly they will be filing war crimes charges against Saddam, Osama, Kim, Qadaffi, and a host of Iranians.
Oh come on! Rumsfeld doesn’t NEED help looking bad, he can do it without the German’s helping….quite nicely, thank you.
Of course nothing will happen.
Rummy’s been setting Baby Bush’s agenda for over 4 years, now, telling him what to say and what to think and if you think Bush will allow his “brains” to get in trouble, think again.
I’m PROUD to brag that I voted against Bush (Libertarian) BOTH TIMES.
On an unrelated note; Ya asked for a copy of the Gay “Agenda” a while back?… here it is in a nutshell (speaking as a brother to a homo.)
Equal rights in the eyes of the law.
Equal privilages in the eyes of the law.
Tod