Remember Germany and the idiotic claim of universal jurisdiction and prosecuting Rumsfeld and others for “war crimes”?

Same shit, same losers, different day.

Including the mentally-and-morally-”challenged” leftist dwarfs on this site!

What are we to make of the commenting humanity when even crimes are discussed in a partisan tit-for-tat manner? I'll trade you one waterboarding for two beheadings?

Even assuming that your argument using historical references to the SSR (which is falsely used as a parallel, btw) is correct, what does that have to do with current pactices and events? No one can justify what he does today because someone else did the same yesterday. That's something parents teach children before they go to kindergarden.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0410-04...

firing on journalists…big damn heroes the lot of em.

Lurking within your otherwise tiresome ad hominem attack is an intriguing question: What leftist regimes (as opposed to totalitarian Communist regimes) have been accused of war crimes or whose crimes leftists have turned a blind eye to?

Having given this considerable thought, I'm drawing a big fat blank.

After all, what do those crazed paranoid wingnuts think those poor souls would do…hijack a plane and fly it into a skyscraper?! Oh, the humanity…

This is a ideological issue, really. I believe, if one is to be just, one must pursue all war criminals and crimes against humanity in proportion to the offense.

Consider, for example, Shaun's broad thesis…that ultimately it is a matter of time…and Rummy & Co. will be brought to justice.

This begs the question: Where has this ever happened with someone on the Left accused of crimes against humanity?

Why is it that the Europeans…and Shaun, of course…focus all attention on the so-called crimes against humanity of Rummy and those on the Right…while completely ignoring those committed on the Left.

The Spanish judges so incensed by Pinochet and Rummy could easily be incensed by…say, the East German “shoot to kill” policy for people fleeing the Soviet bloc. They would not even have to leave Europe…or have a diplomatic crisis…to file an arrest warrant in those cases. Why have they not to date?

**Grasshoppers chirping**

What about Chinese crimes against humanity? Or those is Islamic countries with petrodollars?

How many former Soviet bloc torturers and killers are now happily…and safely…wandering the streets of countries that are now members of the EU?

They know that the Spanish judges…of the Left…and journalists like Shaun…also of the Left…will turn a blind eye to their crimes.