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French prosecutors throw out Rumsfeld torture case
Reuters ^
| Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:27pm EST
Posted on 11/23/2007 1:09:59 PM PST by OSHA
PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris prosecutors' office has dismissed a suit against Donald Rumsfeld accusing the former U.S. defense secretary of torture, human rights groups who brought the case said on Friday.
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DUmmies must be deeply saddened. No frogmarch by the frogs.
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posted on
11/23/2007 1:10:00 PM PST
by
OSHA
To: OSHA
I think it’s great the way France has grown stones overnight in the wake of Sarkozy’s election.
Go, Sarko! No more France bashing from me.
To: OSHA
This kinda news gotta be related to the writers’ strike! Probably found it in somebody’s trash can!
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posted on
11/23/2007 1:18:09 PM PST
by
CRBDeuce
(an armed society is a polite society)
To: OSHA
Moonbats hit the closed window again!!
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posted on
11/23/2007 1:19:06 PM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: Ann Archy
I love watching them crash to the ground and flop around, stunned.
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posted on
11/23/2007 1:20:42 PM PST
by
FreedomPoster
(Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
To: FreedomPoster
Early Christmas present!!
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posted on
11/23/2007 1:22:37 PM PST
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: OSHA
Maybe now this organization can move on with it’s back log of suits and charges against the taliban/alQ beheaders = What? No such list???
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posted on
11/23/2007 1:25:32 PM PST
by
maine-iac7
(",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
To: OSHA
The DUmmies are going to go psychotic over this. Oops too late, nevermind.
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posted on
11/23/2007 1:31:14 PM PST
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989; PJ-Comix
The DUmmies are going to go psychotic over this. Oops too late, nevermind. They haven't found it yet but when they do it ought to give PJ some good material.
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posted on
11/23/2007 1:46:14 PM PST
by
OSHA
(Liberals will lick the boot on their necks if they think the other boot is on yours and mine.)
To: Lancey Howard
“No more France bashing from me.”
I’m trying to do the same thing. Thank the Good Lord that there’s germans to pick on or I’d probably bust from backed up bile.
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posted on
11/23/2007 1:52:37 PM PST
by
Grimmy
(equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
To: OSHA
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posted on
11/23/2007 1:53:52 PM PST
by
Tzimisce
(How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President!)
To: OSHA
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posted on
11/23/2007 1:54:33 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist)
To: Lancey Howard
No more France bashing from me. Well, it's so much fun I can't quite go THAT far ;-)
But, yer right. Good to see France more on our side than the days of shock-yer-jock.
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posted on
11/23/2007 2:23:12 PM PST
by
evad
To: Lancey Howard
The French haven't changed. They're just following their own law. The rationale for the dismissal was
'that Rumsfeld benefited from a "customary" immunity from prosecution granted to heads of state and government and foreign ministers, even after they left office.' This is the same law that protects French heads of state from prosecution, in other words. The suit was filed in a French court, not some international court, but the disappointed 'plaintiffs' think international law trumps French law.
The FIDH said...in a statement it was "astonished at such a mistaken argument" and said customary immunity from prosecution did not exist under international law. Besides, the French have a greater sense of self-preservation than to stir up an 'international incident' of this magnitude. If the French were inclined, they were stir something up in the so-called "International Criminal Court."
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posted on
11/23/2007 2:36:56 PM PST
by
wimpycat
(Hyperbole is the opiate of the activist wacko.)
To: OSHA
To: LibFreeOrDie
The nice folks over at the daily kos is now on Suicide Watch.
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posted on
11/23/2007 4:54:43 PM PST
by
Mojohemi
To: Ann Archy
“...the prisoners at Gitmo has such a good time. Put in stress positions for hours; forced to withstand freezing temperatures naked on the floor for hours...”
From one of the letter-writers at Reuters. Freezing temperatures? Do any of these idiots even know where Guantanamo Bay is? Good grief!
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posted on
11/23/2007 5:37:44 PM PST
by
beelzepug
("One should never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.")
To: Lancey Howard
“No more France bashing from me.”
Hold the freedom fries. Make that French fries, please!
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posted on
11/23/2007 5:39:26 PM PST
by
freedom4me
(Republicans say government doesn't work. Then they get elected and prove it. --PJ O'Rourke)
To: OSHA
Give France alot of credit. They seem to understand anarchy and laziness, and entitlement only lasts as long as the last ass-kicking.
To: freedom4me
“No more France bashing from me.” Hold the freedom fries. Make that French fries, please!
I will now go and buy French wine for some Christmas gifts
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posted on
11/23/2007 5:46:55 PM PST
by
LynnHam
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