Just days after his resignation, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany's top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Along with Rumsfeld, Gonzales and Tenet, the other defendants in the case are Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone; former assistant attorney general Jay Bybee; former deputy assisant attorney general John Yoo; General Counsel for the Department of Defense William James Haynes II; and David S. Addington, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. Senior military officers named in the filing are General Ricardo Sanchez, the former top Army official in Iraq; Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the former commander of Guantanamo; senior Iraq commander, Major General Walter Wojdakowski; and Col. Thomas Pappas, the one-time head of military intelligence at Abu Ghraib.
Germany was chosen for the court filing because German law provides "universal jurisdiction" allowing for the prosecution of war crimes and related offenses that take place anywhere in the world.
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This is very disturbing. I’m old enough to remember Lt. Calley and the My Lai massacre in Vietnam in 1968. Hundreds of civilians were killed, but no one called for the resignation of the Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford.
Why no calls for the Secretary of Defense’s resignation? While My Lai was a terrible tragedy, most people knew better than to try to score partisan points by politicizing the war. It was the actual participants who went to trial, not the Secretary of Defense.
Now we have other countries who will do the work of the radical left by leveling charges against a former U.S. Secretary of Defense for alledged abuses at Abu Ghraib.
And many on the left calls us paranoid when we say we don't want to be part of a World Court.
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