Posted on 11/27/2009 9:08:57 PM PST by American Dream 246
Unreal. Team Obama may allow US soldiers to be tried in the Hague for war crimes. The Wall Street Journal reported, via Jihad Watch:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed “great regret” in August that the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration may reverse another Bush policy and sign up for what could lead to the trial of Americans for war crimes in The Hague.
The ICC’s chief prosecutor, though, has no intention of waiting for Washington to submit to the court’s authority. Luis Moreno Ocampo says he already has jurisdiction—at least with respect to Afghanistan.
Because Kabul in 2003 ratified the Rome Statute—the ICC’s founding treaty—all soldiers on Afghan territory, even those from nontreaty countries, fall under the ICC’s oversight, Mr. Ocampo told me. And the chief prosecutor says he is already conducting a “preliminary examination” into whether NATO troops, including American soldiers, fighting the Taliban may have to be put in the dock.
“We have to check if crimes against humanity, war crimes or genocide have been committed in Afghanistan,” Mr. Ocampo told me. “There are serious allegations against the Taliban and al Qaeda and serious allegations about warlords, even against some who are connected with members of the government.” Taking up his inquiry of Allied soldiers, he added, “there are different reports about problems with bombings and there are also allegations about torture.”
It was clear who the targets of these particular inquiries are but the chief prosecutor shied away from spelling it out.
Asked repeatedly whether the examination of bombings and torture allegations refers to NATO and U.S. soldiers, Mr. Ocampo finally stated that “we are investigating whoever commits war crimes, including the group you mentioned.”
Oh the ironry!
Obama is a love child - from the womb of Marxism and the sperm of a putrid press...conceived in duplicity and darkness.
And America is being punished!!!!!!!!.
It is a treaty. It needs to be approved by 2/3 (67) of the Senate. Never happen.
We, the People of the United States, formally request our Generals unseat the Kenyan Usurper immediately and jail him on Usurping charges, before he damages our Country any further.”
Any American who calls Obama, “president” is a traitor, enemy of the US Constitution. Kenyan born Obama is not in compliance with the US Constitution “
Spot on bottom line analysis...I'd only add one word to expnd it to a 30+ year history lesson:
They have been force fed the Hate Bush/Reagan mantra for nine yearsdecades and it shows. Ignorance is a way of life in this country. If you say ACORN, they say what? If you say Anita Dunn, they say who? If you say Fort Hood, they say where? If you bring up Unemployment, the Deficit, Afghanistan, they say it's all Bushs fault. I'm not talking Leftist nutcases, I'm talking Joe Sixpack.
Good'n
“Gen. Casey cares more about upsetting ragheads than he does dead American soldiers. I don’t think he’d hesitate for one minute to turn our guys over to the ICC if zero told him to.
As for the U.S. Navy, there are three seals being court-martialed because some raghead terrorist complained about a fat lip. And never forget Murtha’s prosecutorial jihad against our marines.
Please don’t tell me our generals and military leaders wouldn’t sandbag our service men and women. They already have.”
Yup. We can`t even depend on our military leaders (much less civilian ones) to defend the troops, anymore.
“January 20, 2013 can’t come quickly enough. This national nightmare still has over 3 years to go on.”
The 2012 “election” will be stolen by The One. Guaranteed. After that, he and Congress will probably just declare him Dear Leader for Life.
Thank God that Ayers was an abject failure back then....now not so much. In fact, terrorists over the years have a long history of abject failure, vs for instance, the military. The US Military’s Nuclear Weapons accidental ‘explosions’, nil, terrorist accidental explosions blowing themselves up, a la Ayers’ girlfriend, happens all the time, providing entertainment for the rest of us. We can only hope that Ayers’ buddy, Obamao, and his Kangaroo Kongress are looked back on in the near future as ‘entertainment’. I’m still trying to figure out if his supporters are ‘drugged down’ or ‘dumbed down’!
I’m still trying to figure out if his supporters are ‘drugged down’ or ‘dumbed down’!
Mass exodus from the military.
Required to follow all legal orders.
ping...
This is unreal, but not unexpected.
He can’t just sign a treaty. Congress would have to ratify it by, if I remember correctly, a 2/3 majority of the Senate. Even with the RINOs, they don’t have that, and there are enough Dems who wouldn’t go along with that to effectively deny the super-majority necessary to ratify, or even shut down debate.
His father, a Vietnam Vet in the Marines, almost came to beating him up to stop him from signing. He never joined because of that. His father remembers the ill treatment he got when he came home from Vietnam.
You and millions of other people including myself.
This is sick
Agreed, we should be springing those POWs out of there, heck, we should have done it more than 30 years ago. Our government, doing nothing, that is criminal.
“But military officers are still required to do what he says.
No dispute, they follow orders or resign, or face Courts Martial.
Actually itsahoot they only required to follow “ Lawful” orders.
Huge distinction
so No, Officers in our military do not have to follow all orders.
Of course the catch is making sure the people who judge you know the difference. So far our military justice system has done a good job of understanding the difference.
There are so many of us Freepers and others who see what is going on, please let us act before it is too late
Justa,
You’re right on the mark. Peaceful, sustained, huge demonstrations are the best civilians could do for now. I don’t put a lot of stock in the 2010 election unless we prevent the administration from ACORNing it! That will be much worse in 2012, paving the way for Dear Leader For Life!
If that fails and one of the numerous powder kegs is sparked, CW II will start and the only way to stop it, before total devastation, would be the military. I wrote about this many times already in the past few years.
There is no doubt that 0b0z0 upset many powerful entities and most of the electorate. He dissed the military, the CIA, Israel (Mossad), Wall Street, the Constitutionalists, etc. He dumped our allies, bankrupted the country, lowered our value as the only superpower even in the eyes of his beloved Western Europeans who are laughing at him, especially with his frequent AF1 flying zoo of apes, communists and perverts.
(Quick quiz for ya; who fits like a glove in all three categories? If you get the answer right, you win a banana, which is good for an ape and the new flag of the newest banana republic!)
Long story short, any or all of the above entities and/or groups could very well dig up his hidden records, witnesses and yes, BC. If 0b0z0 is so transparent and has nothing to hide, WHERE ARE HIS RECORDS, ALL OF THEM?????
This is the only way to save the greatest country in the world, almost unscathed. It’ll nullify anything he did, give Biden no time to try all over again until he’s kicked out in 2012 in an un-ACORNed election.
AD 246,
I add my voice to yours, too much apathy and PC will kill us all, not only by Moslems, but also by born??-American Christians?? and Jews?? in Abu Bama’s Administration.
On such a nice Sunday, I’m actually dismayed about having to write about the plague that our fellow “Americans” bestowed on our beloved UNIQUE country!
Steam coming out of my ears!!
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