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Demeter
This is maybe the best way to destroy what is left of the NATO alliance, Who served US interest for more than 60 year... And that if I may say it pretty well to
If a criminal are taken into custody, by ordinary government, or International Criminal Court it the jurisdiction from the Court who decide what happened. I know that US decide often that they have the _right_ even to execute foreigner, who have been tried for crimes on american soil. The same policy that other nations would accept that they have the right to also
ICC can conduct criminal investigation outside of US. Even if it means that US citizen would be asked to come to Hague, to witness. If US was to deny ICC the right to ask questing to american citizen, it means, by legal terms, that US have a very weak case in the Hague... But if US have a lot to HIDE... Then....
One of the few country who have been placed in the Hague when it come to war crimes, is in fact the United States of America. It happened in 1987, when a american soldier was facing a trial. And was sentenced to many year behind bar. But because the US armed forces DENIED that the soldiers was to be arrested, but choose to fly the fellow home to United States. He was never put behind bars. But he can never go outside United States. He has a international arrest order on his head.. And if outside the US, he may been send to the Hague... And then some lonely years in the prison system....
No doubt, if we look at the fact, this administration, have planed to used criminal deeds against the international system. The Iraq war itself was, and are still a criminal Enterprise. This was _not_ a self defense thing, but rather a war of aggression. And as such something that can be food for the ICC. US have almost lost the credibility they once had in Europe, specially in the Western Europe, where you had your closest friends... And all this "US are holy, and we are over the law, and do as we se fit" are something that would in the end harm United States of America much more than it would harm Europe...
If the US president, would invade Hague, to "defend" the right of a person, who was held in prison because of allegation about criminal deeds.. Then the whole concept of US as a friend, and allied would be dead in the water for 100 year or so. If US decide to BOMB hague, because of ICC. Then you may even se good friends of US, stand up, to tell Uncle Sam to get showing itself... US have no right to invade another country, just because the country have in their custody, someone who they believe to be a criminal. Should Europe attack New York, or other coastal City's because European have been arrested, and facing criminal charges?.. France HAVE flat tops, and they do know how to use it... (aircraft carriers)
IS US have nothing to fear, why don't let a trial, where an american are arrested for criminal behavior go. If the american in the case is guilty, then US have not doing their job. If an american are equited, then the system have worked as it should... It is a Reason the ICC was ratified by 150 country.. Even if US bribed, treated and otherwise trued to stop the founding of ICC.. They even tried to tell our government here in Norway, that if we ratified the ICC, we would not be considered close allied, and that the F35 may be lost... And that is the most costly aircraft program Norway have had ever... And we have all ready been in the program with more than NKR 1 BILLION... That is a lot of moeny and then be treated with that... Well F35 fuck yourself.. We can get the JAS gripen for half the prize. Even with the low US dollar course..
This Administration _know_ they are in trouble.. They _know_ that if the truth are coming out, no civil servants, no public office who was been held between 2000 and 2009 would be safe, when it come to the international Criminal Court. They KNOW as a fact, that if the fact about the war against terror was to be locked into the seams It would end in something that no american would love.. Even us, who despise what US have become, would have problems with the fact.. And for many american the holy trinity, where US are the holy and that the country can not do harm to other country are something they relay believe in, whatever the fact on the ground are.
I know well long before the Abu Girab pictures was coming to light, when the first news about torturing afghans and then iraqi prisoners was been known what the case ended in.. Even when the document ion against the soldiers was mounting, they was defended nail an toe..To the bitter end... The highest ranking officer in this case was sentenced to 5 year in prison, and a demotion... But he is still in the armed forces.. And are still in the intelligence part of the US forces...
In many ayes. The USA are just not doing nothing criminal. Even if it is proven otherwise. And if an american are put on trial in the HAGUE. Do you don't believe that the HAGUE would be working according to international law, and democratic traditions?.. And in difference from the US kangaroo cort in Guantanamo Bay, we don't excite people here in the Europe, but have a rather humane way to let them be in prison...
And that is maybe all his "little bushes" in US most afraid about.. One that the truth about this administration to be known. Two, that the guilty would be sentenced to prison, instead of a firing squad..
Diclotican
Sorry my bad english, not my native language
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