Rumsfeld sued by German group for war crimes

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Civil rights activists said they would file a
suit Tuesday asking German prosecutors to investigate former U.S.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and a host of other officials on
allegations of war crimes for their alleged roles in abuse at Iraq's
Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo Bay.

The 220-page suit is being filed by US and German attorneys
under a German law that allows the prosecution of war crimes regardless
of where they were committed. It alleges that Rumsfeld personally
ordered and condoned torture.

"One of the goals has been to say a torturer is someone who
cannot be given a safe haven," said Michael Ratner, the president of
New York's Center for Constitutional Rights, which is behind the
litigation.

"It sends a strong message that this is not acceptable."

The suit is brought on behalf of 12 alleged torture victims - 11
Iraqis held at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and Mohamad al-Qahtani, a
Saudi being held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who
has been identified by the US as a would-be participant in the Sept. 11
attacks

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How funny is this? It seems that when it rains it pours. I am waiting for the MIllions and I mean Millions of US citizens to come out in support of Rumsfeld during these trying times. The Germans may no a little something about torture so who better to bring these charges up. There have been many questions around why Donald Rumsfeld all of a sudden stepped down after so adamantly declined to do so on several other occasions.

Could it be that he knew what was coming with the inception of the Democratic House and Senate? Or maybe it was the news of this pending investigation that got him to step Down? I guess we will never know what caused the sudden change of heart, and honestly it doesn't matter.

Now the Democrats have had control for a whole week and gas prices are starting to inch their way back up (take a look you'll see) we are in the middle of a war that we do not want, medicare is all but useless now. oh yeah open enrollment has started. I tell you we are in worse shape now then we were when the Republicans where in office.

I mean really what is the use.