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Post by ragabash on Aug 30, 2011 14:02:44 GMT -5
videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/former-bush-official-promises-testify-if-somThis could be huge, the man who wrote Colin Powell's lie filled presentation on WMD's to the UN has come forward and said that he's willing to testify if someone tries Dick Cheney for war crimes, even if it results in him going to prison. Now we just have to hope someone in the administration has the balls to take him up on this.
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Post by verasthebrujah on Aug 30, 2011 14:39:45 GMT -5
Nice thought, but it's not going to happen.
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Post by ragabash on Aug 30, 2011 14:51:24 GMT -5
Nice thought, but it's not going to happen. I know that, but I can still dream. Hopefully it will also raise the question of "why not?" now that someone is willing to testify if there is a trial. |
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Aug 30, 2011 16:35:13 GMT -5
Ah, wishful thinking.
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Post by N. De Plume on Aug 30, 2011 18:39:20 GMT -5
Pretty cool. But there has to be some major pressure from other quarters, too, I think. Perhaps the kind of pressure that comes with a petition/letter-writing campaign. Let the folks in charge of arranging such a thing know that the people want it.
But with Cheney being largely out of the public eye for the past few years, I doubt that’s going to happen. Someone please let me know if such a campaign starts though. Then I’ll certainly do my part to help.
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Post by ragabash on Aug 30, 2011 19:14:04 GMT -5
Pretty cool. But there has to be some major pressure from other quarters, too, I think. Perhaps the kind of pressure that comes with a petition/letter-writing campaign. Let the folks in charge of arranging such a thing know that the people want it. But with Cheney being largely out of the public eye for the past few years, I doubt that’s going to happen. Someone please let me know if such a campaign starts though. Then I’ll certainly do my part to help. Cheney wrote a book and is very prominently promoting it, not to mention that the tenth anniversary of the WTC attacks is coming up as well. He's more in the public eye right now than he has been in nigh four years. |
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Post by N. De Plume on Aug 30, 2011 20:40:03 GMT -5
Well, those aren’t making headlines around me.
Well, the ten year anniversary thing is. But I’m not hearing anything about Cheney with it. In either case, those seem like “Good PR” thing anyway. Nothing that reminds people that aren’t already predisposed to dislike him why they should be so angry.
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Post by sylvana on Aug 31, 2011 1:39:45 GMT -5
I am still trying to figure your why Cheney and Bush have not been dragged before the international courts for war crimes? We don't need the input of this staffer, there is more than enough evidence to get them both locked up for a long time.
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Post by ragabash on Aug 31, 2011 1:49:24 GMT -5
I am still trying to figure your why Cheney and Bush have not been dragged before the international courts for war crimes? We don't need the input of this staffer, there is more than enough evidence to get them both locked up for a long time. What it essentially boils down to, sadly, is an unwritten agreement between the Democrats and Republicans to not prosecute the war crimes of the other party. Thus no charges for Reagan mining the harbours of Nicaragua, Clinton for bombing a medication factory in Sudan, and those are just two that spring to mind. |
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Aug 31, 2011 4:15:12 GMT -5
I am still trying to figure your why Cheney and Bush have not been dragged before the international courts for war crimes? We don't need the input of this staffer, there is more than enough evidence to get them both locked up for a long time. In a nutshell: Might makes right. |
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Post by Yla on Aug 31, 2011 8:23:04 GMT -5
I am still trying to figure your why Cheney and Bush have not been dragged before the international courts for war crimes? We don't need the input of this staffer, there is more than enough evidence to get them both locked up for a long time. In a nutshell: Might makes right. And the US not recognising the ICC. |
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Post by discoberry on Aug 31, 2011 9:05:23 GMT -5
In a nutshell: Might makes right. And the US not recognising the ICC. And therefore is not ICC jurisdiction, which means other war criminals could (conceivably) come here for sanctuary. |
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