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Europe's latest attack on America [EuroWeeny Alert]
Townhall.com ^ | 6/11/06 | Peter Cuthbertson

Posted on 06/11/2006 2:01:06 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom

Europe’s opponents of the war on terror have a new half-inch thick document to add to their armory. On Wednesday, Swiss politician Dick Marty put together a well-publicized report for the Council of Europe condemning America for a policy of rendition. The United States is charged with globally establishing a “spider’s web” relationship with national intelligence networks for the purpose of apprehending terrorist suspects and taking them into secret custody.

“Europe,” he explains, “already has a long and painful history of terrorism” and has been wise and experienced enough to have fought back “primarily by means of existing institutions and legal systems.” America, by contrast, “appears to have made a fundamentally different choice” to operate outside the law.

The report leaves little doubt about the degree to which it believes America should scale back its current operations in the war on terror. It even condemns security services for keeping lists of those suspected of terrorist connections as breaching fundamental principles of justice.

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: rendition
What are Swiss politicians doing sticking their noses in international affairs anyway? I thought they were supposed to be neutral.
1 posted on 06/11/2006 2:01:07 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Yeah, well their report is full of holes.


2 posted on 06/11/2006 2:05:31 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Build the fence. Sí, Se Puede!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
*YAWN* Another European railing fruitlessly at the realization of his country's irrelevance.
3 posted on 06/11/2006 2:14:43 AM PDT by Quiller (When you're fighting to survive, there is no "try" -- there is only do, or do not.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

"“Europe,” he explains, “already has a long and painful history of terrorism”"

Maybe, just maybe, they wouldn't have such a long and painful history of terrorism if they would just go kick some terrorist ass...it's the ONLY way to get rid of them.


4 posted on 06/11/2006 2:31:37 AM PDT by HauntedSoul (Don't call me "newbie", see my profile page.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Dick? Weeny? Swiss? European?

I see the connection.


5 posted on 06/11/2006 4:40:05 AM PDT by armydawg1 (" America must win this war..." PVT Martin Treptow, KIA, WW1)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
Europe does not have a long history of terrorism.

Europe has a long history of fanatical fantasy ideologies, mass killings, involvement of civilians as targets in warfare, irreligion,and genocide.

Europe should STFU.

6 posted on 06/11/2006 4:43:39 AM PDT by Jim Noble (And you know what I'm talkin' 'bout!)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

Was the report written in German, Russian, or Arabic?


7 posted on 06/11/2006 7:30:05 AM PDT by CPOSharky (Go home and fix your own country before you complain about ours.)
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