I do think Rumsfeld should have to answer for his policies. But an international scandal?
For one thing, all of the US would be on trial, not just one person. I don’t see how that would help any of us, as we try to get out of ME in one piece.

Then too, there is a definite element of “stick it to the US’ in Europe and in many human rights organizations. I’m not sure that the trial could be either proper or fair under the circumstances.

When you get right down to it, I do believe taht a trial would need to have the highest standards to achieve anything other than an orgy of unprovable accusations. A bad trial would be worse than no trial, IMO. It depnds, then, on the quality of the testimony and the formal case in general.

President Bush asked his yes men, David Addington and Alberto Gonzales. Lo and behold, things known the world over, and quite obviously to anyone with half a brain, as torture were not really torture at all. No, they were just “enhanced interrogation” techniques.

You see, it’s all in the definition of terms — and who gets to decide which definition to use.

And by now we all know who The Decider is, don’t we? He’s the one that French lawyer would do better to indict.

he should be rewarded for the great and wounderful thing he had done in peace camps at gitmo. those prisoners weren’t torture, they were taught about how to start and make peace by using peace, like bombing a country.