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trippie
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posted 26 March 2007 11:12 PM      Profile for trippie        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
I wish I had the resource taht would alow me to post my own findings but none the less.... Here is another important event to read up on...

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Baltasar Garzón, the Spanish judge who sought to prosecute Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, has called for US President George W. Bush and his allies to be tried for war crimes over Iraq.

Writing in El Pais on the fourth anniversary of the invasion, Garzón stated, “Today, March 20, marks four years since the formal start of the war on Iraq. Instigated by the United States and Great Britain, and supported by Spain among other countries, one of the most sordid and unjustifiable episodes in recent human history began.

“Breaking every international law, and under the pretext of the war against terror, there has taken place since 2003 a devastating attack on the rule of law and against the very essence of the international community. In its path, institutions such as the United Nations were left in tatters, from which it has not yet recovered.”

“Instead of commemorating the war,” Garzón continues, “we should be horrified, screaming and demonstrating against the present massacre created as a consequence of that war.”


Read more at...

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/mar2007/garz-m27.shtml


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trippie
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posted 26 March 2007 11:17 PM      Profile for trippie        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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The fact that such a prominent international judicial figure openly speaks of bringing war crimes judgement against the leaders of the US, UK and Spain is an indication that the entire Iraq campaign is heading towards a disaster and a response to the mounting opposition around the world.

Yet his statement was given only the most cursory coverage by the media in the United States and internationally. No publication chose to make an editorial comment and most simply reproduced or slightly amended a Reuters report.



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vista
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posted 27 March 2007 01:20 AM      Profile for vista        Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Well nows the time to let a few of those media outlets know exactly what you expect of them.

Don't just let them run roughshod over this story without so much as a peep.

Write the News Directors and give them what for.

Let us know who you wrote to and I for one will add my voice.


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posted 27 March 2007 08:26 PM      Profile for Pride for Red Dolores     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
It's a nice idea, but were does he intend to try them ? in spain-that will never happen, who is going to permit Bush and co to be extradited. As for the world court, the US doesn't recognize it I believe.
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Cueball
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posted 27 March 2007 08:43 PM      Profile for Cueball   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Actually, the WSWS story, doesn't really reflect the direction of Baltasar Garzón's statements. He is actually talking about going after Aznar directly, not Bush, though the implication against Bush is there.

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"Those who joined the U.S. president in the war against Iraq have as much or more responsibility than him because, despite having doubts and biased information, they put themselves in the hands of the aggressor to carry out an ignoble act of death and destruction that continues to this day," he said.

In February, Spain's former leader Jose Maria Aznar said he now knew Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction but "the problem was not having been clever enough to know earlier."

Garzon wrote: "If he didn't know enough, he should be asked why he didn't act prudently, giving United Nations inspectors more leeway instead of doing the opposite in total submission and fidelity to President Bush."


Time to try Iraq war leaders-Spanish judge Garzon

[ 27 March 2007: Message edited by: Cueball ]


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Pride for Red Dolores
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posted 27 March 2007 09:01 PM      Profile for Pride for Red Dolores     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
trying Aznar and cie is allot more feasible..most spaniards were vehemently against the war-they had some of the largest protests. Aznar only joined the war effort in an effort to raise Spain's international profile by a rapprochement in Spanish-usa relations...politics are horrible reason to go and attack Iraq-especially when he probably knew like evereyone else did that there were no wmd's, no matter what he says in hindsight.
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