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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
What's so hilarious about this is that they would never go after real war criminals. You don't see them going after the people that cut people's heads off. You don't see them going after Hamas for intentionally targeting civilians.
When you really think about it, it's amazing that this prosecutor would have the nerve to do this. Does he think that we don't know his motives? Who does he think he's kidding?
Even though I know that nothing will come of this, it still angers me. With all that we've done for Europe, they still treat us like crap.
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Did you read the article closely? The German prosecutor has yet to take any action yet because the plaintiffs haven't yet filed.
The culprit here doesn't seem to me to be the Germans but rather German law which allows for "universal jurisdiction" for war crimes and related offenses that take place anywhere in the world.
A similar situation came up with Rumsfeld in Germany in 2004. Prosecutors delined to persue action. A civil rights attorney named Michael Ratner, who is helping the plaintiffs with their filing is one of the culprits, in my view.
But the worst culprit here is former U.S. Army General Janis Kaspirski, who used to run the U.S. prisons in Iraq who has issued a written statement to acompany the plaintiffs' filings and apparently will be a witness for the plaintiffs.. She will be in Germany next week to "address her accusations" in the case. I'd bet dollars to dimes her prospective publisher and public relations rep will be staying in the same freaking hotel.
I think it is absolutely abhorrant when senior U.S. military officials "retire" and then move on to seek personal attention and wealth by writing books or showing up on television talk shows which can only be successful ventures if they betray their superiors, their military and their nation.
The fact it is happening in Germany is just because it's the quickest way for Kaspirski to get her face on the t.v. talk shows before the new Congress conducts whatever hearings it's sure to conduct where she'd get lost in the shuffle.
For or against the war; for or against Bush; for or against whatever, this sort of betrayal by our retired military leaders is bullsh1t.