Hello snugs. Rumsfeld would have been the Dems whipping boy. GWB wouldn't do that to him. I would also look for the President to issue him a Presidential pardon at the first mention of charges against him.
I believe the Germans are already wanting to bring charges against him in the World Court.
How I hate and despise than piece of trash.
Absolutely
re: Rummy Germany
You mean our socialists led by head rat "Ratner" and muslim lawyers went to Germany to bring charges because of legal rules there. Ah... Germany... oil for food, raising and sheltering terrorists, the irony. They're even claiming Rummy's german relatives have disowned him... these pigs are low as hell.
Have a link:
http://www.macsmind.com/wordpress/2006/11/10/ones-to-talk/
Along with Rumsfeld, Gonzales and Tenet, the other defendants in the case are Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone; former assistant attorney general Jay Bybee; former deputy assisant attorney general John Yoo; General Counsel for the Department of Defense William James Haynes II; and David S. Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff. Senior military officers named in the filing are General Ricardo Sanchez, the former top Army official in Iraq; Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the former commander of Guantanamo; senior Iraq commander, Major General Walter Wojdakowski; and Col. Thomas Pappas, the one-time head of military intelligence at Abu Ghraib.
Ummm... Col. Pappas. With the Abu G queen herself Karpinski testifying, who once said it went all the way to Rummy, yet she knew of nothing going on there. Nevermind, nothing to see here.
As Michelle said:
The German government isn’t filing the lawsuit. It’s 11 Iraqis and a Saudi who went court-shopping and filed in Germany because the country “provides ‘universal jurisdiction’ allowing for the prosecution of war crimes and related offenses that take place anywhere in the world.” A previous lawsuit was filed on similar grounds and was dismissed. Yes, Germany has its share of weasels. But German Chancellor Angela Merkel isn’t one of them and outrage at the country is premature.
It's CCR again, it's not the first time they've tried it.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,341131,00.html
Here, get to know them:
http://stoptheaclu.com/archives/2006/11/10/germany-seek-charges-against-rumsfeld-over-prison-abuse/
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?id=2155
Thank goodness we're not part of the ICC. Like the great John Murtha (brown bag), I say we deploy our German military bases to Poland... permanently.
From a commenter re: The Looming Tower
The new Germany had carefully enshrined tolerance in its consitution, including the most openhanded political asylum policy in the world. Acknowledged terrorist groups were allowed to operate legally, raising money and recruits-but only if they were foreign terrorists, not domestic. It was not even against the law to plan a terrorist operation so long as the attack took place outside the country.
The unspoken compact that the Germans made with the radical foreign elements inside their country was that if Germans themselves were not attacked, they would be left alone. In recoiling from its extremist past, Germany inadvertently became the host of a new totalitarian movement.
(Hmmm)
It has nothing to do with the Germans. A far-left wing organization (The Center for Constitutional Rights) headquartered in New York City has selected a German court to file charges against Rumsfeld. The reason they selected Germany is that German laws give the German courts jurisdiction anywhere in the world over the issue of war crimes. This group filed the same suit several years ago but the German court threw it out on the grounds that the US already has laws that handle war crimes.
Try googling on Center for Constitutional Rights and you'll see what a Commie organization they are. The granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is an attorney on the staff.
Of course, the articles and headlines you see about this in the mainstream press don't give you this information.