Sat Aug 8, 2015, 08:55 PM
Pharaoh (8,209 posts)
International Court Judge Says Dick Cheney Will Eventually Be Tried as a War CriminalThomas Buergenthal, former judge at the International Court of Justice, said that former Vice President Dick Cheney could possibly be tried as a war criminal before the International Criminal Court (ICC), reported RawStory. http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/dick-cheney-should-and-eventually-will-be-tried-as-a-war-criminal-former-international-court-judge/ http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/07/international-court-judge-says-dick-cheney-will-eventually-be-tried-as-a-war-criminal/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork
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Pharaoh | Aug 2015 | OP |
Heather MC | Aug 2015 | #1 | |
BlueJazz | Aug 2015 | #2 | |
SusanaMontana41 | Aug 2015 | #8 | |
IHateTheGOP | Aug 2015 | #11 | |
SusanaMontana41 | Aug 2015 | #14 | |
IHateTheGOP | Aug 2015 | #10 | |
SusanaMontana41 | Aug 2015 | #15 | |
-none | Aug 2015 | #3 | |
SusanaMontana41 | Aug 2015 | #16 | |
-none | Aug 2015 | #19 | |
SusanaMontana41 | Aug 2015 | #23 | |
yeoman6987 | Aug 2015 | #4 | |
sorefeet | Aug 2015 | #5 | |
Unknown Beatle | Aug 2015 | #6 | |
RufusTFirefly | Aug 2015 | #12 | |
Diclotican | Aug 2015 | #7 | |
IHateTheGOP | Aug 2015 | #9 | |
SusanaMontana41 | Aug 2015 | #17 | |
chapdrum | Aug 2015 | #13 | |
SusanaMontana41 | Aug 2015 | #18 | |
-none | Aug 2015 | #20 | |
SusanaMontana41 | Aug 2015 | #22 | |
Uncle Joe | Aug 2015 | #21 |
Response to Pharaoh (Original post)
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 08:58 PM
Heather MC (8,084 posts)
1. When Posthumously? He only has a few ticks left, Let's get this going!
Response to Pharaoh (Original post)
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 09:07 PM
BlueJazz (25,348 posts)
2. I can only (rather) quote Bette Davis regarding Cheney's death.
"My parents taught me to only speak good of the dead, Cheney is dead, Good."
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Response to BlueJazz (Reply #2)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 12:49 AM
SusanaMontana41 (3,233 posts)
8. I'm stockpiling good karma so I can tap-dance on Cheney's grave. n/t
Response to SusanaMontana41 (Reply #8)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 10:08 AM
IHateTheGOP (1,059 posts)
11. I'm taking the whole family on vacation to his grave to do same
Response to IHateTheGOP (Reply #11)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 03:06 PM
SusanaMontana41 (3,233 posts)
14. You're a poker player.
Not only did you match my cards, you raised me one!
I'm not sure we can do it all at once. We'll have to use fortune cookies.. The cookie with "After I'm done here I'm going to Rumsfeld's grave" wins. |
Response to BlueJazz (Reply #2)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 10:06 AM
IHateTheGOP (1,059 posts)
10. Can't wait!!
Response to IHateTheGOP (Reply #10)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 03:10 PM
SusanaMontana41 (3,233 posts)
15. Will you be driving a camper van or a bus? A
And bring money. $10's and $20's. The cemetery director will make a killing if he/she charges for parking.
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Response to Pharaoh (Original post)
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 09:38 PM
-none (1,884 posts)
3. I hope they do as we have done.
Just go into a country and take whomever we want and bring them to which ever country we want. We have already set the precedent for others to follow. That would serve Cheney right.
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Response to -none (Reply #3)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 03:13 PM
SusanaMontana41 (3,233 posts)
16. What's your favorite "enhanced interrogation technique"? eom
Response to SusanaMontana41 (Reply #16)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 05:32 PM
-none (1,884 posts)
19. My favorite? Depends on whether I am the interrogator or the interrogatee
For Cheney, whatever he had approved of.
A stay in gitmo, after a discussion with him of his enhanced interrogation techniques. Make him think that also awaits him. That would work for me. |
Response to -none (Reply #19)
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Response to Pharaoh (Original post)
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 09:48 PM
yeoman6987 (14,449 posts)
4. Won't happen
Pipe dream. Oh they may do some trial but it won't do anything. We won't extradite him because we are not under world court jurisdiction. Never have been, never will. However if they do this and he steps off U.S. soil then maybe. But I doubt he will leave again. I would love it to happen but I just know it won't.
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Response to Pharaoh (Original post)
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 10:14 PM
sorefeet (1,241 posts)
5. At least he will go down in history
as a war criminal. Him and the rest will be tried in absentia and all will be guilty. And there will probably be bounties or frozen assets. And their families will have to live with it. And the entire world will know these people have a different justice system than the poor. But with his new heart he will live to experience the misery of being a wanted man.
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Response to sorefeet (Reply #5)
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 10:50 PM
Unknown Beatle (2,643 posts)
6. A psychopath doesn't feel misery.
He'll blame all of his problems on someone else.
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Response to Unknown Beatle (Reply #6)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 11:32 AM
RufusTFirefly (8,812 posts)
12. ^ ^ THIS ^ ^
I think the hardest thing for people with actual feelings to grasp is that sociopaths feel no regrets. We like to invision a time when they finally come to terms with the sheer magnitude of their offenses and are wracked by guilt. Unfortunately, that time may never come. The sad truth is that most of them don't give a shit. And probably never will.
P.S. I have no plans to dance on anyone's grave. I'm stubbornly clinging to that last shred of humanity. |
Response to Pharaoh (Original post)
Sat Aug 8, 2015, 11:18 PM
Diclotican (5,095 posts)
7. Pharaoh
Pharaoh
One can hope it is not that far away - that Cheney - and the rest of the Bush Administration - and to many to count elsewhere is arrested - sent on a airplane to Haag - and put on trial for their crimes... And of course since the international court of justice do not hang people - live out their life in relative comfortable prison cells in the Netherlands - or elsewhere they might be put.... It is the best we in Europe is able to do sadly - as we have some standards to our prisons... Diclotican |
Response to Pharaoh (Original post)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 10:05 AM
IHateTheGOP (1,059 posts)
9. Let it begin soon....
Cheney should be awaiting execution for war crimes, violations of international law, and violations of the United States Constitution. W likewise.
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Response to IHateTheGOP (Reply #9)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 04:41 PM
SusanaMontana41 (3,233 posts)
17. Rummy doesn't travel outside the country. Germany would have his ass.
That's the problem with Obama's "let's not look at the past, look toward the future" meme.
Because the Holocaust was so yesterday. |
Response to Pharaoh (Original post)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 01:21 PM
chapdrum (930 posts)
13. "possibly" be tried
-maybe be tried
-giving him options as befits the status of his previous "office" ...whatever. As likely as revealing the identity of those who really killed JFK, RFK, MLK. A country that refers to itself as exceptional will start with the logical exception - right here. |
Response to Pharaoh (Original post)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 04:56 PM
SusanaMontana41 (3,233 posts)
18. "I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic."
Obama flouted that oath. And he's a constitutional scholar. It's our job to punish war criminals, but somebody else will have to do it. |
Response to SusanaMontana41 (Reply #18)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 05:37 PM
-none (1,884 posts)
20. That is not our job to punish war criminals.
That is what the World Court is for. This country is more like some street gang enforcing their own idea of the law.
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Response to -none (Reply #20)
Mon Aug 10, 2015, 04:39 AM
SusanaMontana41 (3,233 posts)
22. It IS our job to prosecute war criminals.
The U.S does have laws against torture under the Fourth Amendment:
The principal federal law that would apply to torture against detainees is 18 U.S.C. 242, which makes it a criminal offense for any public official to willfully to deprive a person of any right protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States. Obama has abrogated his oath. He should be impeached and put on trial for war crimes. So should every member of the Cheney administration. |
Response to Pharaoh (Original post)
Sun Aug 9, 2015, 07:25 PM
Uncle Joe (55,237 posts)
21. Kicked and recommended.
Thanks for the thread, Pharaoh.
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