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Title: War crimes reserved for US policy opponents
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URL Source: http://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/11 ... -the-u-s-envoy-for-war-crimes/
Published: Nov 27, 2009
Author: Stephen Gowans
Post Date: 2009-11-29 09:08:35 by Tatarewicz
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Through countless wars the United States has amassed a long record of war crimes, from abuse and torture of prisoners to the bombing of civilians and the deliberate destruction of hydroelectric dams, sewage and water treatment facilities, factories, bridges, roads, schools, hospitals and dwellings. The United States has also facilitated Israel's war crimes, while at the same time obstructing efforts to bring Israeli war criminals to account. Therefore there is nothing more brazenly hypocritical than the US having an ambassador at large for war crimes in the person of Stephen Rapp who has tried former Liberian president Charles Taylor at the Hague. Rapp's mandate is to drag before war crimes tribunals any leader who has failed to do Washington's bidding, as a warning against defying the United States while remaining silent on war crimes Washington's stooges have carried out. Ethiopian and Israeli war criminals are exempt from Rapp's scrutiny, as too are Americans who torture detainees, bomb civilians, and give the orders. Rapp could only be a credible envoy for war crimes were he to focus first on the considerable crimes of his own country and its allies. Until then, the greatest contribution the US can make to eliminating war crimes is to stop committing them, or better yet, to stop making war.
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Snippet from WSJ in www.mudvillegazette.com/032975.html Regarding the possibility of US joining the International Criminal Court with President Obama sending a exploratory delegation to the Hague, ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo says he already has war crimes jurisdiction in Afghanistan because Kabul ratified in 2003 the Rome Statute, ICC's founding treaty. Thus all soldiers in Afghanistan, even from non-treaty countries, fall under ICC oversight. Ocampo is conducting a "preliminary investigation" into whether NATO troops fighting the Taliban, may have to be put in the dock for war crimes and crimes against humanity. So even Harper's Canadian honchos who authorized transfer of of Taliban prisoners to the Afghan regime which allegedly tortured them may find themselves if not in the dock, severely restricted in travel abroad.
Heil Harper
#2. To: Tatarewicz (#1)
"The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so." ~ Josh Billings
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