War Crime Trials for Neocons?
by Jeff Davis
Can it be that we will actually see it on our television screens one day? The beautiful, wonderful sight that every decent human being on earth dreams of? Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and above all, George W. Bush, along with dozens of others from AIPAC and the neocon think tanks, all standing in a row in a courtroom, wearing orange jumpsuits and belly chains and placards with numbers around their necks?
Time Magazine thinks it might be possible: “Just days after his resignation, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany’s top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The plaintiffs in the case include 11 Iraqis who were prisoners at Abu Ghraib, as well as Mohammad al-Qahtani, a Saudi held at Guantanamo, whom the U.S. has identified as the so-called “20th hijacker” and a would-be participant in the 9/11 hijackings.”
While a war crimes charge from a European court may seem like a trivial thing, which would only affect the travel plans of the neocons, it is much more important than that. We need something to jump start Congressional hearings on the cause of the Iraq War and on the torture scandal. If a European court actually convicts Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney and Bush of crimes against humanity and launching a war of aggression, then the meek individuals in the Democrat party will be pelted with millions of e-mails asking them why they don’t start a similar investigation right here in America. (more…)