Posted on 04/08/2009 1:43:45 PM PDT by AJKauf
It isn’t quite true these days that, to cite that over-quoted Monty Python sketch, “nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.” Case in point: Phillipe Sands, a British lawyer with Cherie Blair’s London firm. Last year, he published a book claiming that when the Bush administration came to an end, six of the president’s top-level advisors would face charges in international court.
Sure enough, now Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon wants to charge those six senior policy advisors with “giving legal cover” to alleged torture at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
How will Obama respond?...
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Let’s get Dog the Bounty Hunter to haul the good magistrate into Texas for animal cruelty. (He likes bullfights, the old fashioned kind where they spear the bull over and over.)
I think Obama would cooperate with this if he thought he could do so without hurting his own popularity. The media would applaud him doing so. They don’t have to worry about the Republicans cooperating with a foreign prosecution in the future—they probably figure that with massive enfranchisement of aliens in the coming years that the Republicans will never be in a position to regain the White House, and even if they did, a Republican administration wouldn’t hand over Americans to a foreign kangaroo court.
Someone tell them a war broke out so they will run and hide
I would not be suprised if “The Divine One” cooperated with the foreign court. Maybe even arrest the individuals here and transport them to Spain. This wretch is a disaster waiting to happen.
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