Posted on 11/19/2009 5:00:05 PM PST by Czar
The American war crimes ambassador said Thursday in the Hague that the U.S. is committed to ending impunity for crimes against humanity, in a speech signaling a softening of hostility toward the International Criminal Court.
Stephen Rapp's brief remarks marked the first time a U.S. diplomat has addressed the 110-nation Assembly of State Parties, which oversees the court's work and budget.
(Excerpt) Read more at law.com ...
Not unfamiliar with the concept of sovereignty, hostile to it.
Our dear reader is not familiar with a lot of things American ... Like the Constitution and it’s 57 States. Hard to get a handle on all that from Indonesia.
* Ping *
Here we go. 0bama is on a self-destructive roll of late. Unfortunately he seems determined to take the country with him.
The list, ping
I am truly suprised it has taken him this long to get around to the ICC. I had predicted during the campaign this would be an Obama priority.
It isn't self-destructive, and the course isn't an accident.
When all this crap goes down the tubes, he will still have money, lots of it, and will be insulated and protected. The lousy SOB.
This is AWEFUL for our troops, who could be tried in the Hague simply for doing their job.
Of frakin course they soften hostility to such....the libtards run the looney farm now...its simply the libtard way.
OMG
Where does it end.
This is how Zero pleases the left - turn over W, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and a few other of the left’s favorite villains to the International Criminal Court.
Jack
When your commander in chief hangs you out to dry bookmark.
9/10/09
“U.N. LAWYERS TARGET U.S. TROOPS”
“Justice: As if fighting a war in Afghanistan isn’t hard enough, ambitious global prosecutors have rolled into Kabul looking to charge U.S. troops. Intentional or not, such legalism will sap U.S. morale as it did in Vietnam.
At about the time NATO’s new secretary-general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, warned NATO’s European members against an early pullout, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, whose body is charged with looking for international war criminals, announced he was looking for new “clients” from anyone with a grievance in Afghanistan.
At a briefing Wednesday in The Hague, Moreno-Ocampo said he had launched a new war crimes inquiry, seeking information about “torture” especially — a European obsession — and had already mined the human rights groups for stories. He added he was also “very open” to more information from foreign governments.
Oh, he’d been evenhanded in his Monday-morning battlefield quarterbacking of course, promising he’d prosecute both Taliban and NATO troops as moral equals.
But it doesn’t take a genius to know what the spotlight-loving attorney (who once launched his own reality TV show back in Argentina) is really after: Americans in the dock as war criminals.
The atmosphere that makes a prosecutor like Moreno-Ocampo ambitious enough to go after Americans instead of a real monster like, say, Fidel Castro, can only occur when the West’s will has weakened, as Rasmussen warned.
After all, if a war to defend our civilization can be reduced to a series of police-brutality cases, then Afghanistan isn’t about victory...”
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=505775
>OMG
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>Where does it end.
With politicians and bureaucrats being shot and/or hung. [/cynic]
No way. Ever.
I'd rather see:
It could get to that at this rate of speed.
It all is getting worse by the minute.
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