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 | | From: | Gogarty | | Subject: | Re: Rumsfeld fears warcrimes prosecution. | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 15:55:19 -0500 |
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 | In article <1106507756.239151.204320@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
mark_fox_@yahoo.com says...
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>HawkCW4 wrote:
>> hadda hadda wrote:
>> > "israel t" wrote in message
>> > news:87oefh6jj2.fsf_-_@kafka.homenet...
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>> >>" Rumsfeld cancels trip because of warcrimes fears
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>> >> Friday 21 January 2005
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>> >> US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cancelled a planned visit to
>> >> Germany after a US human rights organisation asked German
>authorities
>> >> to prosecute him for war crimes, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) has
>> >> learned. "
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>> > Not likely.
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>> > Nobody but US can prosecute US citizen regardless what and where
>alleged act
>> > is committed...
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>> You might want to rethink that.
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>> Ed
>> USA Ret
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>Private citizens can indeed be arrested and prosecuted by foreign
>governments for actions they committed as private citizens but United
>States Government officials arrested in foreign lands for decisions
>they made as part of their jobs is an act of war upon the United States
>and will subject the offending country to the wrath of the entire
>United States military.
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Well, no. That's not true either. Quite the contrary. Their actions in a
foreign land could be construed as an act of war against that country.
Where do you people get off with the idea that Americans can do whatever
they damn well please anywhere and get away with it?
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