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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 09:40 PM Original message |
US committed no war crimes in Iraq |
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Horse with no Name (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 09:47 PM Response to Original message |
1. So who did Cheney kidnap or threaten to shoot? Pay off? |
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saigon68 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 04:31 AM Response to Reply #1 |
45. Obviously this is just playground scuffling GRAPHIC PHOTO |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
2. How about "waging aggressive, unprovoked war" |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 09:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I am not a lawyer |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. I think the Iran invasion is pretty clear cut |
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muriel_volestrangler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 06:42 AM Response to Reply #13 |
51. But the ICC does not yet have the agreement to try for Crimes of Aggression |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-20-09 10:36 AM Response to Reply #4 |
58. The Allies invented the category for Nuremberg. |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 09:53 PM Response to Original message |
3. This is parsing |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
5. three words: Shock and Awe |
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Amonester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:00 PM Response to Original message |
6. double $tandard$ - eom |
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Arctic Dave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
7. I guess we'll have to take care of it ourself. Get a rope. |
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frog92969 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
24. The world needs justice. |
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liberalmuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
8. This guy is a fucking hack. |
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NYC Democrat (234 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Yes yes he disagrees with you therefore he is a hack |
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Hissyspit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:37 AM Response to Reply #11 |
35. He may not be a hack |
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totodeinhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:10 PM Response to Reply #8 |
20. Wait a minute. |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 06:02 AM Response to Reply #8 |
49. He's not a hack. I suggest you learn more about him. |
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4lbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
9. After reading about everything he's been doing and involved with over the past 30 years |
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liberalmuse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. It's hard to believe... |
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4lbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. I think he's limiting it to what happened in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
12. No crimes, aside from attacking and bombing the shit out of them. |
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National Steel 27 (91 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:37 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Hey, it's only a million or so civilians.... |
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Gregorian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 01:31 AM Response to Reply #14 |
36. I walk in other's shoes. |
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RedCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
15. How about using depleted uranium and then marching our troops right through it? Who gets rich that w |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
17. No ICC Prosecutable War Crimes Were Committed? |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:56 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. agressive war was "utterly renounced" at Nuremberg nt |
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Mithreal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:37 AM Response to Reply #19 |
34. There may be some technicality with those who signed the ICC |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 04:17 AM Response to Reply #17 |
43. UN expert: US failing to properly probe war crimes (May 2009) |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
18. I wonder if a little anti-Arab, pro-Israel bias is influencing his opinion? n/t |
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Bette Noir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
21. He's not the final word. |
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BobTheSubgenius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:20 PM Response to Original message |
22. The Nuremburg Tribunal disagrees, in my view. |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:24 PM Response to Original message |
23. Can somebody pass the body count to Mr. Goldstone |
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frog92969 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:29 PM Response to Original message |
25. Why No Recs ???? |
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AlphaCentauri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:26 AM Response to Reply #25 |
33. it looks more like vindication than a real analysis of the wars |
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Flaneur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:38 PM Response to Original message |
26. The whole thing was a war crime. |
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swilton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-18-09 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
27. Goldstone was not praised for his independence on the ICTY |
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Metta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:04 AM Response to Original message |
28. This guy's an obvious apologist and revisionist. |
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swilton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:08 AM Response to Original message |
29. Further notes from Mandel on Goldstone and the ICTY |
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mullard12ax7 (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
30. Torture isn't torture! Nobody was tortured! Dayam, how many times... |
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burrowowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:13 AM Response to Original message |
31. Say what!!!? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
32. At least one Nuremberg prosecutor has disagreed |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 01:36 AM Response to Original message |
37. Richard Goldstone apparently understands that words have meaning. |
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A1Sauce (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 01:38 AM Response to Original message |
38. Yeah Right! |
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winyanstaz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 01:39 AM Response to Original message |
39. And a frog's butt isnt water-tight....and God didnt make little green apples. |
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libodem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:04 AM Response to Original message |
40. This would be my take |
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sicksicksick_N_tired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:21 AM Response to Original message |
41. His perspective is quite narrow, apparently, with respect to crimes against humanity. |
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magellan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 02:21 AM Response to Original message |
42. Volcker Commission? |
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panzerfaust (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 04:19 AM Response to Original message |
44. The war, in and of itself, is a crime |
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and-justice-for-all (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 05:18 AM Response to Original message |
46. I am pretty confident that it is a crime.. |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 05:32 AM Response to Original message |
47. Into the land of doublespeak we go, trala, trala. |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 05:48 AM Response to Original message |
48. ... |
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hack89 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 06:22 AM Response to Reply #48 |
50. If Obama thinks there were war crimes then he must prosecute first |
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choie (899 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
52. "some allegations of torture" or "some civilians killed in Iraq and Afghanistan".. |
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Amonester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 10:21 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Perhaps most of the "some" (tens of thousands) killed are Arabs... |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
54. Our invasion of Iraq was a war of aggression, a war crime. |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 10:44 PM Response to Original message |
55. yes, and Im the Queen of England |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
56. What about one of the things the Nazis were condemned for: "waging aggressive war"? |
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riverdeep (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-19-09 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
57. And this is how the Bush cabal will get away with it. |
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