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2003-04-28 Europe

Iraqis target Gen. Franks for bogus war crimes

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Posted by Steve 2003-04-28 08:21 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 the bus at al-Hillah. Would that be the one full of Syrian "migrant workers"? If so, I believe we did our darndest to convert mass into energy there. Perhaps that's what they mean.

Posted by Chuck 2003-04-28 08:45:10|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-04-28 08:45:10|| Front Page Top

#2 Why aren't these people going after the UK through the ICC? We've put our armed forces' heads on the block for no sane reason and ratified it. It would be hilarious to watch Belgium demanding we hand over our "war criminals" to Brussels for "justice". It would also be a slap-in-the-face wake-up for Tony, and anyone else who confuses EU/UN membership with something resembling British national self-interest. Bring it on, Belgium!

Posted by Bulldog 2003-04-28 08:55:07|| 2003-04-28 08:55:07|| Front Page Top

#3 What a load of crap! Sounds like more "searching under the streetlight", since the @)#*$ morons wouldn't bother with Saddam, or Mugabe, or Boy Assad, or any of the other two-bit dictators on this rock. Nope--always gotta go after the "evil" US of A.

Posted by Dar 2003-04-28 09:10:32|| 2003-04-28 09:10:32|| Front Page Top

#4 When did the Belgians start running the world? I missed when that happened.

Posted by tu3031 2003-04-28 09:12:18|| 2003-04-28 09:12:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Wouldja just look at those cute lil' funny bunnies -- they passed a law and that makes them think they have the authority to judge war crimes committed by noncitizens anywhere in the world! Isn't that just precious?

Posted by John Phares 2003-04-28 09:36:10|| 2003-04-28 09:36:10|| Front Page Top

#6 They are going after the UK, which was dumb enough to ratify this monstrosity. They can't get at the US, so the'll give Tony a hard time.

I say we send in the Marines to sit in the court.
Think about THAT, Mr. Procurator...

Posted by mojo 2003-04-28 09:56:29|| 2003-04-28 09:56:29|| Front Page Top

#7 And they let the REAL war criminals off. I hope they don't apply this to their Police force. What a crime wave would result!

Posted by KP 2003-04-28 09:57:02|| 2003-04-28 09:57:02|| Front Page Top

#8 Send the reply by Tomahawk. I'm sure they'll get the message. Snotty little posturing by a bunch of bureaucratic twits.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-04-28 10:30:39|| 2003-04-28 10:30:39|| Front Page Top

#9 What a steaming pile of hypocritical bullshit. To go after Franks but ignore Hussein for the past 12 years, that is the very definition of hypocrisy. The mind reels.

The Europeans really need to get hold of themselves -- sure it's a good thing to be wary of war, after the mess they got themselves into during the early 20th century, but to openly defend murdering dictators and openly defy the only country willing to do something about it -- this differentiates them from Hussein, how exactly?

Follow the money. I'm quite sure Galloway and Chirac are not the only benefactors of Saddam's oil money.

Posted by Jeff B 2003-04-28 10:31:35|| [jeffbrokaw.net/weblog/] 2003-04-28 10:31:35|| Front Page Top

#10 tu3031 - How did Belgium get to rule the world -

Ok we gotta have a EU central control, how we gonna stomp it if it gets out of control? Well belgium is pretty easy to invade...

Posted by flash91 2003-04-28 11:39:59|| 2003-04-28 11:39:59|| Front Page Top

#11 No, really, they do intend to go after the other threats on this planet......really. It's just that Kimmie has promised to turn Belgium into a "sea of fire" and Belgians don't have the Juche to use an army-based philosophy to counteract his ol' man's great feats. Um, yeah. And if they go after Mugabe, his wife threatened to boycott Belgian chocolates on her next Champs-Elysee shopping spree. So, once they deal with the REAL threat to ~~their sense of irrelevancy~~ the supremacy of international law, then they'll go after Kimmie & Bob. Maybe. They promise to get back to us on that.

Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-04-28 13:30:37|| 2003-04-28 13:30:37|| Front Page Top

#12 The Belgians trying to serve that arrest warrant could make for the greatest episode of COPS ever. "Be careful, Francoise. The subject is armed with three carrier battle groups, the 82nd Airborne Division, 25,000 Marines, 450 Abrams tanks ... Have you got an extra magazine?"

Posted by Matt 2003-04-28 13:44:46|| 2003-04-28 13:44:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Can we start calling the Belgians the "Axis of Waffles"?

Please?....

Posted by mojo 2003-04-28 17:00:45|| 2003-04-28 17:00:45|| Front Page Top

#14 Axis of Waffling Weasels already includes Belgium.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-04-28 17:31:00|| 2003-04-28 17:31:00|| Front Page Top

#15 MY TYPING IS NOT VERY GOOD SO THIS FORMAT IS EASIER FOR ME .LET US HOPE WE DO NOT HAVE TO FIGHT THEM ALL AT ONCE AND HOPE THAT MONACO ANDORRA AND LICHTENSTEIN JOIN THEM.GENERAL PATTON AND HIS TROOPS ARE BURIED IN LUXEMBOURG.BATTLE OF THE BULGE ONE OF MANY YOU BELGIANS>AND YOU WISHI WASHI FRENCH YOU ALL HAVE AMERICAN TROOPS BURIED IN YOUR COUNTRIES.MAYBE WE SHOULD BRING THOSE HEROES HOME.THEIR FAMILIES DID NOT HAVE A GRAVE TO GO TO AND MOURN THEIR LOVED ONES.IF IT WAS NOT FOR THOSE AMERICANS I PROBABLY WOULD NOT BE ALIVE TODAY UNDER THE NAZIS OR RUSSIANS.HEY YOU F..... FRENCH BELGIANS LUXEMBOURG THAT GOES FOR YOU TO.YOU MAKE ME PUKE AND I AM DEEPLY ASHAMED FOR MY BIRTH COUNTRY LUXEMBOURG AND FOR THE REST OF THOSE SO CALLED PEOPLE.ALWAYS LIKED THE DUTCH HOPE THEY DO NOT CHANGE.THERE I FEEL BETTER NOW.PS IWAS ONLY ALITTLE GIRL DURING THE WAR BUT IREMEMBER.THANK YOU AMERICA AND I AM PROUD TO BE ONE OF YOU.Donner

Posted by Donner 2003-04-28 19:11:46|| [ms] 2003-04-28 19:11:46|| Front Page Top

#16 SORRY ABOUT ALL THIS REPEATS MS KEPT CANCELLING MY ACTIONS.SORRY SORRY

Posted by donner 2003-04-28 19:34:17|| [ms] 2003-04-28 19:34:17|| Front Page Top

#17 Hmmmm,

Jeffbrokaw, you say the europeans should get ahold of themselves, perhaps they already have and perhaps this great Austrailian insult would apply for what they are doing: "WANKERS"

Posted by SOG475 2003-04-28 19:52:24|| 2003-04-28 19:52:24|| Front Page Top

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