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Topic: Spanish Judge calls for architects of Iraq invasion to be tried for war crimes
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trippie
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posted 26 March 2007 11:12 PM
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... quote: 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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vista
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posted 27 March 2007 01:20 AM
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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Cueball
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posted 27 March 2007 08:43 PM
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. quote: "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 ]
From: Out from under the bridge and out for a stroll | Registered: Dec 2003
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