Posted on 11/27/2009 9:08:57 PM PST by American Dream 246
Unreal. Team Obama may allow US soldiers to be tried in the Hague for war crimes. The Wall Street Journal reported, via Jihad Watch:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed great regret in August that the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court (ICC). This has fueled speculation that the Obama administration may reverse another Bush policy and sign up for what could lead to the trial of Americans for war crimes in The Hague.
The ICCs chief prosecutor, though, has no intention of waiting for Washington to submit to the courts authority. Luis Moreno Ocampo says he already has jurisdictionat least with respect to Afghanistan.
Because Kabul in 2003 ratified the Rome Statutethe ICCs founding treatyall soldiers on Afghan territory, even those from nontreaty countries, fall under the ICCs oversight, Mr. Ocampo told me. And the chief prosecutor says he is already conducting a preliminary examination into whether NATO troops, including American soldiers, fighting the Taliban may have to be put in the dock.
We have to check if crimes against humanity, war crimes or genocide have been committed in Afghanistan, Mr. Ocampo told me. There are serious allegations against the Taliban and al Qaeda and serious allegations about warlords, even against some who are connected with members of the government. Taking up his inquiry of Allied soldiers, he added, there are different reports about problems with bombings and there are also allegations about torture.
It was clear who the targets of these particular inquiries are but the chief prosecutor shied away from spelling it out.
Asked repeatedly whether the examination of bombings and torture allegations refers to NATO and U.S. soldiers, Mr. Ocampo finally stated that we are investigating whoever commits war crimes, including the group you mentioned.
0ba-ma0 has resisted the demands of the Amish long enough (AP) reports.
0ba-ma0 has had enough of the satire and gross ignorance of silence
coming from the Amish resistance in the middle American lands of taxation.
0BA-MA0: I um, er, WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT SILENCE AS A SUBSITUTE,
FOR um, ah, um,
TAX PAYMENTS um FOR MY PERSONAL AGENDA!
If you say ACORN, they say what? If you say Anita Dunn, they say who? If you say Fort Hood, they say where?
If you bring up Unemployment, the Deficit, Afghanistan, they say it's all Bushs fault.
I'm not talking Leftist nutcases, I'm talking Joe Sixpack.
Slandering you again, Joe!
I’m one Cid grad who’s a Constitutionalist; the mantra was “Citizen Soldier”. I believe the preponderance of my fellow Bulldogs, the Aggies, Norwitch and VMI grads are the same ... at least those who graduated in my era.
I can believe the military academies produce mostly careerists, despite (or maybe because) my brother is a USAFA grad and is of my mindset.
I’d like to have the the academy types prove me wrong.
They’re the ones who usually hold sway for continuation and would be in positions to effect real leadership, patriots or not.
The FBI knew what he was up to, and the worthless bastards did nothing to stop him.
Some reports that I have read indicate that the idiots went so far as to write Hasan's communication with terrorists as "research."
Meanwhile, the Fumbling Bumbling Idiots target pro-American mothers and children at the Tea Party protests as "terrorists."
Their behavior just makes me want to scream like that guy in "Network."
I have to be careful saying what I think should be done to put a stop to the whole sale destruction of our country!!
I have two boys in the military and I am very concerned about what is happening!
I once read somewhere that America was going to be conditioned to enter the NWO and when it was sufficiently sofened up It was going to be dragged into the socialist system with many kicking and screaming.
With America gone the world will enter the darkest days it has ever seen - Biblical in proportion. Evil will only yeald to overwhelming force. It has to be destroyed- Period! we have seen it over and over again. Millions will suffer and many will die. I have a very bad feeling about this and pray constantly. I want to believe I am wrong
I’ve done my part to de-fund the current regime, have you?
I have and am busy putting together my survival strategies!
Because beyond the field grades (and even lower, in some fields/specialties within the branches), careers are built on being acceptable to the echelons above, which themselves have become political careers, instead of military careers. There's not a single soldier with scrambled eggs on the visor who has the b@lls to let the boss know they will walk if this happens.
The greater the distance from actual combat, the more politicized the military becomes, until it gets to the point that leaders become a uniformed blend of bureaucrat and politician, fearing that one minor mistake will turn them toward the off-ramp from the fast track (there are no on-ramps).
Patton would have never made it past field grade -- he was too oriented to combat (even though he was the combat leader the German high command feared the most).
Corporate executives can make multi-million dollar mistakes, they get bailouts and bonuses. One terrorist alleges he got a boo-boo on his lip, and 0's ready to throw the SEALs under the bus. Just how surreal can this country get?
“I guess I have lost the ability to be shocked by these people, who are attempting to gut this nation and start over, so we can become the socialist paradise they think we should be.”
Once and Future Plans:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/election/480
Give that up. Impeachment is simply a slap on the wrist - cf. the Clinton Impeachment. Conviction and removal from office is what you want. That goal can only be attained after the Democrat controlled House finds Hussein guilty and sends the verdict to the Democrat controlled Senate which must vote for conviction and then again for removal from office, leaving Biden President, or additionally Impeaching, Convicting and Removing both Hussein and Biden, leaving Pelosi President.
Pick your favorite outcome from the list above.
Lateness doesn't matter any longer. It is now legal (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/us/politics/28acorn.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1259355860-u1P2DRmPrdFQwFuMP5+Gww) for the Democrat controlled US Government to fund the Democrat controlled voter fraud arm of the Democrat Party ACORN. In other words the Republican Party already at a 3-1 disadvantage (your Stimulous dollars at work) in fund raising will now contend against the entire US Treasury for funding...
I hope 0bama signs off on that, there would be such a howl against him, they’d hear it all the way over in The Hague.
Talk of impeachment just serves to distract us from more feasible options.
When Congress is as angry as we are--Dems included--that may change. But they are partisan pansies right now.
This guy reminds me of the old joke about the entrepreneur who sold tickets to see the horse with his head where his rear should be and vice versa.
Middle Eastern terrorist tried as American citizens and American Military men tried like foreign nationals.
Maybe his brains are where his rear end should be!
Think Like A Radical:
No way! The draft is unfair and cannot guarantee real diversity!
National service will be mandatory. Ages 0-10 will be raised in creches, 10 to 17 will be in a youth corps, 18-45 in a civil defense corp, 46-up will be in various support roles - like demolishing structures outside of select Urban Areas, working in the food and fuel rationing departments, an so on.
Guns will be collected during random raids at around 3-4 AM throughout the country, all communications not approved will be jammed, blocked or otherwise be inaccessible.
Passports (dark blue) will be required for travel between urban areas and Passports (red) will be valid for travel inside and outside of the US - held only by the political elite.
Buffalo will roam the central US again, and most housing outside of the Urban Areas (except for the political elite) will be simple tepees or similar structures (by permit only).
For starters...
Friday night, and a holiday to boot. Why am I not surprised?
Friends of mine from years ago escaped from the Iron Curtain and became commercial salmon fishermen as I was - long about 1974-1984 (when the Feds (litteraly and physically) attacked our industry) they were all beginning to say the same thing - “What’s the diference between what I escaped from and what the US is becoming?”
We give terrorists access to US courts, but send our own soldiers to kangaroo courts in Europe.
“Germany 1938”
Now: Germany 1933, January. Germany 1937 will be here in a few month’s time... be patient.
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