Commentary: War crime charges threat to ground Bush?

Middle East Times ^ | April 23, 2007 | Louis Werner

[presidio9]

A craving for something that isn’t fried?

[wny]

These elitist blowhards will never understand that GWB doesn’t give a damn what they think.

[geo40xyz]

Louis Werner when you get the Worlds ‘Spanish’ under control, then and only then can you worry about our President George Bush. Until then STFU...........

[Quick or Dead]

Last month, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said he foresaw a time when Bush Junior and Tony Blair might, themselves, face war crime charges. He encouraged Arab countries, in particular Iraq, to ask for standing before his court in order to facilitate such a process.

Europeans welcome their new Arab overlords and are eager to do their bidding.

[GATOR NAVY]

Germany law provides for "universal jurisdiction" over all crimes, committed by anyone, anywhere, which must be prosecuted for the "good of humanity."

How are they going to fit Bush into their schedule? They must be busy as hell with the trials of all those ex-communist...







Oh, they're not prosecuting the ex-communists?

[Badeye]

The author seems to forget that Bush was a millionaire the day he announced for President in 1999, unlike Reagan, or Clinton, for two examples.

I suspect he’ll be happy just to go back to Crawford in January of 2009.

[SamuraiScot]

George W. Bush is likely to head back to Texas, and stay there. Why? Because he may well fear being thrown into jail if he ever left US sanctuary.

By you and what army?

Bankrupt and blown up is no way to go through life for a country, and I don't think Germany (or anyone else) would look forward to that. Never happen.

[pepsionice]

I live in Germany....in a village of barely 2,000 people. They have serious problems with drunk teenagers on the streets of the village on any given night. At least fifteen to thirty kids...ranging from 12 years old on up to 18 years old. The local cops won’t do nothing. The village leadership won’t do nothing. The elders in town sit there and whine about this whole bizzare attitude by this punks...which is totally illegal. No one is going to do a thing about this.

So I’m really not too worried about GW or Rummy. Germans talk alot...but they can’t support nothing. And they won’t even clean up their own mess in their own towns.

[Phlap]

... Instead, as soon as he leaves office at noon, January 20, 2009,

Terrorists and tyrants will be emboldened and the world will be a much more dangerous place. Thank God for George W. Bush.

[rockrr]

Feel the love!

[no dems]

I really have a lot of confidence in the “Middle East Times”. /sarc. / BARF

[peeps36]

I guess that the nuts in Iran,Syria and Zimbabwe are considered good people by the Europeons. I wouldn’t lift a finger to help any of these people ever again.

[Niteranger68]

Germany law provides for "universal jurisdiction" over all crimes, committed by anyone, anywhere, which must be prosecuted for the "good of humanity."

My tool of "universal jurisdiction":

[rahbert]

They need to stay in case the Germans get the urge to march again..

[Dead Dog]

Wow, imagine what we could do to all the Stasi if our laws reflected this. Katerina Witt, enjoy your fruity pebbles and prayer sessions!

[redgolum]

Until the US signs the War Crimes treaty.

Then all the US soldiers will be fair game.

[Bommer]

Sorry but no crime was committed on their soils! They have no say whatsoever in American decision to do jack squat in the world! Any attempt of arresting rmer President is instant war with a country you do not want to phuck with! Personally if I was Bush, I would stay in Crawford and tell the rest of the world to go to hell. They will all see what weak leadership brings.

[napscoordinator]

Europe has lost its mind.

Some Europeans have lost their minds. Europe is one of the greater places to visit, live here...not so much.

[longtermmemmory]

They had the same comments about Ronald Reagan.

Like GWBush the left wing ivory tower even had mock trials against Ronald Reagan.

If memory serves, there were kooks who tried to “serve” GHWBush during the first gulf war and there are NOW smelly left wing kooks who are trying to “citizen arrest” GWBush.

The Democrats are gleeful that they will control the leadership of the state department. Are they in for a big surprise when they realize they have jimmy carter running their foreign policy.