Rumsfeld may skip German visit to avoid war crimes prosecution

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0202-09.htm

WASHINGTON - Concern that US leaders and military personnel risk prosecution in Germany for alleged war crimes has become a factor in deciding whether US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will attend an international security conference in Munich, a Pentagon spokesman said.


Concern that US leaders and military personnel risk prosecution in Germany for alleged war crimes has become a factor in deciding whether US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, seen here January 2005, will attend an international security conference in Munich, a Pentagon spokesman said. (AFP/Don Emmert)

US defense secretaries have rarely missed the Munich conference, an annual gathering of the world's top defense and national security officials and experts for two days of frank debate on major issues of war and peace.



But Rumsfeld has announced no plans to attend this year's meeting February 11-13 even though he will be attending a meeting of NATO defense ministers in Nice, France just before it.

He has done nothing WRONG. Why is he avoiding Germany? What a baby. (sarcasm)

There was a similar item about 2-3 weeks ago, prior to his Poland trip. I remember it cause I commented "he remembered Poland".

why have a turd in the punchbowl?

regarding a member of an AMERICAN Presidential Administration? What has this Dumbf**k done to my Country????

Through the looking glass.

That's how they got Pinochet, isn't it?

I can't believe what we've come to.

Maybe someday he'll be abducted and rendered to a jurisdiction that will prosecute him.

just ask Rummy.

Let's see here, "Strategic Support Branch" ... mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht aber...

Strategic Support Branch=SSB=Schutzstaffel Büro

Maybe it can be modified to follow the acronym better: "Schutz-Staffel Branche"

edit: If, Waffen SS=Strategic Support Branch, then Rummy is a Nazi. HAHA! modus ponens :D

as in, the european countries we don't like

... when an American SOD had been charged as a war criminal. I weep for my country.

:cry:

on C-SPAN2, and, he did not have very positive comments to make about Rumsfeld. He basically said that that was the President's decision. Strange about Rumsfeld association with in PNAC.

:-)

If a prison guard needed an emergency medical evacuation to Germany, would they treat him and then detain him?

Or heck... would they just lay seige to an entire American military base until Rumsfeld turns himself in?