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" Alleging responsibility for war crimes and torture at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, a human rights group has filed a criminal complaint in Germany against US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top US officials.
The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Berlin's Republican Lawyers' Association said they and five Iraqi citizens mistreated by US soldiers were seeking a probe by German federal prosecutors of leading US policymakers.
The Center for Constitutional Rights noted that while several US soldiers were facing court martial for the abuse and sexual humiliation of prisoners at the US-run Abu Ghraib detention center in Iraq, their superiors looked set to escape discipline.
The complaint names Rumsfeld, former CIA director George Tenet, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Steven Cambone, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, Brigadier General Janis L. Karpinski and other military officers who served in Iraq. " http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/120104X.shtml
Why is it that so many of Bush's former aides are "resigning", but not Rumsfeld? Ridge was a disgrace for his role in the dismantling of the Fourth Amendment under the guise of the sick joke that is called the "Patriot Act"; Ashcroft was likewise a disgrace ... only to be replaced by a smarter and therefore potentially far more dangerous man; Powell was no disgrace except in the eyes of his more draconian/right wing superiors seeking true cronyism and so now they have it in Condi; and then there is Rumsfeld.... Your catastrophic so-called plan for a post-war Iraq, notwithstanding Abu Ghraib, continues to cost so very many precious lives and body parts on multiple fronts that you should be summarily arrested. As the great Bob Dylan said of his eternally true and relevant "Masters of War" (written during the Vietnam era when he was in his early 20s, no less!):
"'I don't sing songs which hope people will die, but I couldn't help it in this one. The song is a sort of striking out, a reaction to the last straw, a feeling of what can you do?' As the liner notes for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan further state, "The rage is a way of catharsis, a way of getting temporary relief from the heavy feeling of impotence that affects many who cannot understand a civilization which juggles its own means for oblivion and calls that performance an act toward peace."
The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and Berlin's Republican Lawyers' Association said they and five Iraqi citizens mistreated by US soldiers were seeking a probe by German federal prosecutors of leading US policymakers.
The Center for Constitutional Rights noted that while several US soldiers were facing court martial for the abuse and sexual humiliation of prisoners at the US-run Abu Ghraib detention center in Iraq, their superiors looked set to escape discipline.
The complaint names Rumsfeld, former CIA director George Tenet, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Steven Cambone, Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, Brigadier General Janis L. Karpinski and other military officers who served in Iraq. " http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/120104X.shtml
Why is it that so many of Bush's former aides are "resigning", but not Rumsfeld? Ridge was a disgrace for his role in the dismantling of the Fourth Amendment under the guise of the sick joke that is called the "Patriot Act"; Ashcroft was likewise a disgrace ... only to be replaced by a smarter and therefore potentially far more dangerous man; Powell was no disgrace except in the eyes of his more draconian/right wing superiors seeking true cronyism and so now they have it in Condi; and then there is Rumsfeld.... Your catastrophic so-called plan for a post-war Iraq, notwithstanding Abu Ghraib, continues to cost so very many precious lives and body parts on multiple fronts that you should be summarily arrested. As the great Bob Dylan said of his eternally true and relevant "Masters of War" (written during the Vietnam era when he was in his early 20s, no less!):
"'I don't sing songs which hope people will die, but I couldn't help it in this one. The song is a sort of striking out, a reaction to the last straw, a feeling of what can you do?' As the liner notes for The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan further state, "The rage is a way of catharsis, a way of getting temporary relief from the heavy feeling of impotence that affects many who cannot understand a civilization which juggles its own means for oblivion and calls that performance an act toward peace."
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