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2003-03-08 Afghanistan

Taliban captives should go home, says rights group

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Posted by Steve White 2003-03-08 07:17 am|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Great idea, Steve! I've been wanting to see Nuremburg-style trials after the invasion myself, but you're spot on with shutting out the UN and the ICC, televising the trials, and showing the world the evidence as graphically as possible.

Oh, that it will only come to be!

Posted by Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-08 18:09:00|| 2003-03-08 18:09:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Mojo---Re: "Foxtrot Oscar".....Thanks for the elequent summary of the first three quarters of my comments. But, hey! Its Rantburg, and I was ranting.

Steve White---I really like your idea. All sarcasm and bitter ranting aside, we (the US and those with us) must take these years of horror and human degredation and make something good come out of it. The people under the islamofascists must see what their world has become. The media is extremely powerful. They use it, weasels use it, all to their advantage, so why not us? These trials and documentaries, proceedings, what have you could be the most powerful way to make positive change in the Middle East. An old contractor told me of a lesson he learned after experiencing the Alaska Earthquake of 1964. He said that every disaster is a new opportunity. Well, most of the time....

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-03-08 22:44:47|| 2003-03-08 22:44:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Wonder if Amnesty International has ever sent Saddam Hussein a letter.

Posted by Ralph 2003-03-08 06:47:02|| 2003-03-08 06:47:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Why protest to someone who won't even pretend to listen?

Under the Geneva convention, unless they were captured in uniform, they were unlawful belligerants. And thus not protected by the Geneva convention. By all accounts, they should be put up side a wall and shot. Whatever treatment they are getting, is better than they deserve, and far better than they are legally entitled to.

Posted by Ben 2003-03-08 07:11:36|| 2003-03-08 07:11:36|| Front Page Top

#5 The small fry weren't the ones who were sent for a Caribbean vacation.

Good point, and I forgot to make it last night. Not just anyone gets a Caribbean vacation at Uncle Sam's expense!

Posted by Steve White 2003-03-08 10:48:53|| 2003-03-08 10:48:53|| Front Page Top

#6 When we get done with Iraq, we need to sift through the mountains of govt paperwork there, make SERIOUS and detailed interviews with victims, and shove the documented violations of human rights in the face of every one of these "human rights" outfits, and Germany, and France, and Belgium, and every other grandstanding self-righteous s.o.b. including a forum in the UN and say "here is what 12 years of appeasement and dithering has done to real people." Then challenge the UN reform itself, and if they do not (WHICH IS A FOREGONE CONCLUSION), then take those courageous countries that signed letters of support recently and all the others that stood by us in this WOT and get together and do some real good for people in this world. Leave the rotting carcass of the UN behind and let the buzzards clean it up. We're moving on.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-03-08 11:18:58|| 2003-03-08 11:18:58|| Front Page Top

#7 The concept of "fuck off" doesn't need all that elaboration, Paul.

Short and sweet, so the morons get the idea.

Posted by mojo 2003-03-08 15:07:21|| 2003-03-08 15:07:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Paul,

A follow-up to your idea: after we go through all the paperwork, we need to have some war crimes trials. We point-blank refuse to let the UN or the International Criminal Court have any role whatsoever. But we bring in the best, brightest, most experienced American, British, Aussie, Spanish, etc. jurists and prosecutors, run proper trials that we televise (Arab subtitles), buy time on al-Jeezera to advertise the trials to the Arab people, and publicize the results throughout the world. Allow the Iraqi people to attend the trials (proper decorum as for any legal proceeding). Let them see what the brutalizers did. Journalists accredited from any legitimate news organization can attend. In short, Nuremburg ca 2003.

Imagine what it will do to Muslim people throughout the world when they see the graphic evidence of the tortures, the rapes, the setting people on fire, all the brutality. Most Muslims are reasonable people; they're going to be horrified when they see what Saddam has done. And those who might be tempted by Wahabbist or Salafist philosophy will get to see what's in store for them.

Imagine how it will yank the chains of the Weasels. The French, Germans, Belgians, all get to see just what their governments were supporting. Buy a channel on Eurosat and broadcast the trials over the entire continent. Buy advertising space in Le Monde. Subtitle the trials in French and German. Make sure that the Iraqi officials who bought WMD goodies from European companies get put on trial. Issue subpoenas for the officers of those European companies. The Euro governments won't honor them, of course, but let the European people see the subpoenas.

Posted by Steve White 2003-03-08 15:41:56|| 2003-03-08 15:41:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Great ideas,can't add much to that.

Posted by raptor 2003-03-09 07:15:02|| 2003-03-09 07:15:02|| Front Page Top

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