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Belgium scraps war crimes law
Reuters
| 7/30/03
| Bart Crols
Posted on 07/30/2003 6:40:24 AM PDT by kattracks
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posted on
07/30/2003 6:40:24 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
The Belgians waffled.
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posted on
07/30/2003 6:45:12 AM PDT
by
randog
(Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
To: randog; kattracks
That's all well and good; however, President Bush and other members of the Admininstration are still being prosecuted under the law while it was still on the books. The need to address that issue as well.
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posted on
07/30/2003 6:48:52 AM PDT
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
To: randog
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posted on
07/30/2003 6:52:46 AM PDT
by
Sloth
("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
To: kattracks
Way to go, Rummy. Money talks, especially greenbacks.
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posted on
07/30/2003 6:53:59 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(White Devils for Sharpton. We're baaaaad. We're Nationwide)
To: jriemer
No, the cases against American leaders were filed but had not yet reached an investigative magistrate. They just stalled until they could remove the law from the books (as far as foreign nationals are concerned).
They can't try to prosecute BushCo under the old law because it was never heard or investigated. The cases will be dropped, as the article says. They have no legal standing.
To: George W. Bush
ok its time to scrap belguim
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posted on
07/30/2003 6:57:11 AM PDT
by
rrrod
To: kattracks
Thank God that spineless worm Jimmy Carter or the "Bent One" wasn't in office, because either of them would have signed onto the ICC for sure
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posted on
07/30/2003 7:01:35 AM PDT
by
MJY1288
(The Enemies of America can Count on the Democrats for Aid and Comfort)
To: kattracks
Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx told the lower house the law had fallen victim to "abusive, even absurd use". But who could have forseen that that would happen? /sarcasm
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posted on
07/30/2003 7:12:26 AM PDT
by
ellery
To: CholeraJoe
Money talks, especially greenbacks. Fine. We should STILL pull NATO out of Belgium. Then pull our bases out of France and Germany. They want to push their leftist agenda and support our enemies, they can do so with their OWN resources.
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
We haven't had troops in France since the sixties. DeGaulle kicked them out. Once it's time to relocate the 1st Armored and 1st ID back from Iraq, I doubt they'll go back to Germany.
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posted on
07/30/2003 7:17:41 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(White Devils for Sharpton. We're baaaaad. We're Nationwide)
To: Sloth
Mmmm....that looks good. It's still too early for lunch though, darn it.
To: kattracks
Planned new criminal law provisions will restrict the right to launch war crimes cases to Belgians or people resident in the country for at least three years at the time of the crime.
How difficult would it be to pay people to live in Belgium to be used for this purpose? The law needs to be scrapped entirely.
To: rrrod
ok its time to scrap belguimNot a bad idea. Because of their identity crisis, Belgians seek to create a uniqueness among their Euro brethren.
They should stick to chocolates and waffles. And then they should start looking into their own bloddy past. I can't wait for some African types to start arresting Belgians for historical colonial atrocities.
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posted on
07/30/2003 10:15:39 AM PDT
by
eleni121
To: kattracks
Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx told the lower house the law had fallen victim to "abusive, even absurd use".What do you think the intended use of the law was, you bonehead?
To: MJY1288
...the "Bent One" wasn't in office, because either of them would have signed onto the ICC for sure IIRC, Clinton did sign it - his last day in office. Bush unsigned it.
To: kattracks
Justice Minister Laurette Onkelinx told the lower house the law had fallen victim to "abusive, even absurd use". Stupid is as stupid does....
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posted on
07/30/2003 10:27:46 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
(Calvinism, not just a good idea, but more importantly it's Scripturaly correct!)
To: kattracks
What a dumb law. What were the Belgians going to do? Storm the White House to apprehend Bush?
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posted on
07/30/2003 12:14:55 PM PDT
by
Conservative til I die
(They say anti-Catholicism is the thinking man's anti-Semitism; that's an insult to thinking men)
To: kattracks
U.S. officials denied reports they were contemplating moving the 19-nation alliance headquarters
Well for heaven sake, START contemplating it! Just because the ridiculous law was withdrawn, the people who wrote it are still slithering around. Western Europe needs a good shaking up. And I still hope Britain will extricate itself from the EU...
To: Conservative til I die
What a dumb law. What were the Belgians going to do? Storm the White House to apprehend Bush? More likely something more like what happened to Pinochet: some years later, after he's no longer in office, and the current office holder doesn't particularly like him, Bush would get arrested while visiting some EU country that would recognise an extradition request from Belgium
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posted on
07/30/2003 4:38:41 PM PDT
by
SauronOfMordor
(Java/C++/Unix/Web Developer === will work for food)
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