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almarst-2001 - 05:11pm Jul 10, 2001 EST (#6862 of 6882)

New War Crimes Indictments in The Hague Reflect Politics - http://www.stratfor.com/home/giu/DAILY.asp

"It is obvious that former President Bill Clinton will to be indicted for the 1999 U.S.-led air war against Serbia."

"The real lesson being presented is not about the sanctity of international law but that The Hague has the combined force of the European Union and NATO behind it"

"Nuremberg was a trial of men who led a nation that committed atrocities against ethnic groups and other nations that had done nothing against them. The Jews did not kill millions of Germans, but Germans killed millions of Jews. In contrast, Serbs killed thousands of Croatians, and Croatians killed thousands of Serbs."

"What is happening in The Hague represents the willing subjugation of the Balkans to the European Union and the West. This is not being done out of respect for international law but out of anticipation of economic rewards."

lunarchick - 05:16pm Jul 10, 2001 EST (#6863 of 6882)
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2008 ??????? Moscow 112th IOC Press releases

almarst-2001 - 05:18pm Jul 10, 2001 EST (#6864 of 6882)

America's war criminals By Conn Hallinan Special To The Examiner

"When Slobodan Milosevic, the former President of Yugoslavia, appears before the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague, he ought not stand alone. General Wesley Clark (retired), commander of the NATO air war against Serbia, should be up there with him. And since there is no statute of limitations on war crimes or crimes against humanity, it would seem in order to bring former Senator Bob Kerrey and Henry Kissinger to the docket as well"

"The first of these defendants will probably stand trial. The next three will be unlikely ever to see the inside of an international court of justice, but all have almost certainly violated the 1949 Geneva Convention. And in Clark and Kerrey's case, the U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice. As for Kissinger, the rap sheet is as long as your arm and the butcher bill almost beyond reckoning.

Let's start with Clark. The Geneva Convention prohibits bombing that is not clearly justified by military necessity, and the protocols specifically bar targets that have a civilian function. But NATO aircraft bombed railway stations, bridges, power stations, communication networks, factories, petrochemical refineries, warehouses, sewage and water-treatment plants, hospitals and schools, killing almost 2,000 civilians in the 78-day bombing campaign. In the words of Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Study, "The NATO bombing violated specific rules of war. Our government has committed war crimes by bombing civilian infrastructures.

Where does one begin with Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, and serial killer extraordinaire? Let's list just a few of the things he did while in charge of U.S. foreign policy:

He ordered the Christmas bombing of Hanoi that killed over 2,000 civilians and flattened Bach Mai hospital.

He organized the secret bombing of Laos and Cambodia that killed almost a million civilians, and resulted in the reign of Pol Pot, who killed another million.

He facilitated the Phoenix program which systematically murdered at least 70,000 civilians from June 1967 through 1970. In 1970, a U.S. Congressional study found that the program "appears to have violated the 1949 Geneva Convention for the protection of civilians."

He aided Operation Condor, where the military dictatorships of Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Ecuador assassinated, tortured and murdered political opponents throughout South America. Kissinger was chair of the Interagency Committee on Chile at the time when Condor operatives arrested and murdered American Charles Horman in Chile. State Department documents released in 1999 indicate that the U.S. fingered Horman.

He endorsed Indonesia's 1975 genocidal invasion of East Timor. The day before the attack, Kissinger, then Secretary of State, was in Jakarta telling the press that the "U.S. understands Indonesia's position on the question" of East Timor. The takeover killed 600,000 Timorese.

almarst-2001 - 05:21pm Jul 10, 2001 EST (#6865 of 6882)

A Tale of Two Fugitives - http://www.swans.com/library/art7/acb003.html

"Little more than a week prior to Slobodan Milosevic having been spirited away by the victors to face charges at The Hague, another alleged war criminal, Henry Kissinger, whilst wiling away a little time at the Ritz, was being served a somewhat less forceful, though decidedly unappetizing, summons to appear before the Palace of Justice in Paris."

lunarchick - 05:22pm Jul 10, 2001 EST (#6866 of 6882)
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On 2008, noticed in L'Oz p7 today:

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