War Crimes Suit Prepared against Rumsfeld

[Jcrowley]

War Crimes Suit Prepared against Rumsfeld

The president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, is heading to Germany today to file a new case charging outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld with war crimes for authorizing torture at Guantanamo Bay.

11/09/06 Democracy Now! Runtime 10 Minutes

Would Rumsfeld stepping down leave him open to prosecution? In 2004, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a criminal complaint in Germany on behalf of several Iraqi citizens who alleged that a group of U.S. officials committed war crimes in Iraq. Rumsfeld was among the officials named in the complaint. The Iraqis claimed they were victims of electric shock, severe beatings, sleep and food deprivation and sexual abuse.

Germany's laws on torture and war crimes permits the prosecution of suspected war criminals wherever they may be found. Now, the president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, is returning to Germany to file a new complaint. Michael Ratner joins us in our firehouse studio.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15551.htm

[MadMaddie]

1. The Hague anyone?

[CrazyOrangeCat]

3. We'll all chip in . . .

. . . for Rummy's one-way flight . . .

[mom cat]

13. We need to chip in to the fund for the Center for Constitutional Rights.

https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/ccr/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=166&t=CCR%20donate.dwt

[CrazyOrangeCat]

14. Thanks. I'll check it out. n/t

[mom cat]

18. Meow!

[tblue]

4. I heard there's a vacancy at Abu Ghraib!

[Dystopian]

2. K & R! n/t

[AlamoDemoc]

5. glad to be the numero 5 Rec'd...

[John Gauger]

6. That's right bitch!

Go directly to jail; do not pass go, do not collect $200. This calls for 'War Pigs' by Black Sabbath.

[nicknameless]

7. Well, henny penny! Goodness sakes alive! Why?

:eyes:

... And recommended

[riverwalker]

8. yes!!

I am sending these guys some money.
What greater gift to humanity than to have justice for Rumsfeld's victims?

Center for Constitutional Rights

http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp

[stepnw1f]

9. Rumsfeld, George Bush's Right Hand Man a War Criminal?

no way!?

[Jcrowley]

10. The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation

The Deeper Reality Behind Rumsfeld's Resignation

By Chris Floyd

11/09/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- As Don Rumsfeld is tossed overboard by the panicky Bushes (who value loyalty to themselves above all other virtues but never, ever, practice it toward others; there will be many more bodies left behind as the Family rallies to clean up Junior's mess again), Steve Gilliard steps in below to remind us that what we are actually dealing with here is not politics, not some Beltway horse race, or some idiotic media game of "who's up, who's down." The issue is mass murder -- thousands of Americans, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis -- and human suffering beyond imagining for millions more.

This is the reality. This is what really matters about Rumsfeld and the other architects of the war crime in Iraq. And although all the talk about the election's political ramifications for the Bush Administration is entertaining and diverting, as most gossip is, and not without some importance, on the most essential level it is a moral obscenity.

For when Bush opens his mouth, clotted bits of corpseflesh tumble out; when he walks, he wades through pools of human blood. And behind him, skittering and scooting in the blood-slick on their hands and knees, come all his ministers, handlers and toadies, come all the media sycophants who eagerly peddled his lies, come all the war profiteers who fill their bank vaults with hacked limbs, blown guts, crushed heads and mounds of viscera -- their treasure, their prize. Are we really supposed to be concerned about the political standing of such wretches? Should we not be outraged that they are allowed to walk among free people, much less exercise power and dominion over the nation? Why do they have any "political standing" at all?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15553.htm

[Coexist]

11. 1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2668840&mesg_id=2668840

[Jack Rabbit]

12. The Special Tribunal for Yugoslavia indicted Slobo before he left office

So a special tribunal doesn't have to wait for a suspected war criminal to be removed from power.

Is Mr. Ratner taking any information to Germany concerning the Frat Boy and the Big Dick?

[Jcrowley]

15. Kick

The 14th of November

[Fleshdancer]

16. BEST.WEEK.EVER.

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[AntiFascist]

17. K&R

[SouthernBelle82]

19. I've also heard the theory

that Rumsfeld resigned to keep this from happening. If the democrats do hearings on that they could get him in big trouble so him resigning could be that. And yes that one article is very true: they do demand loyalty but never show it for anyone else.