McCain: bin Laden could face Nuremberg-like justice

[sabra]

Source: CNN

(CNN) — Sen. John McCain on Friday said that as president he would consider bringing Osama bin Laden to justice through a Nuremberg-like international trial.

He told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “We have various options. The Nuremberg Trials are certainly an example of the kind of tribunal that we could move forward with. I don’t think we’d have any difficulty in devising an international — internationally supported mechanism that would mete out justice. There’s no problem there.”

McCain said that it would be a “good thing to reveal to the world the enormity of this guy’s crimes, and his intentions, which are still there.”
When asked if as president he would move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee unequivocally stated, “Yes." Asked when, he said, "Right away.”

“I’ve been committed to that proposition for years,” he said.

McCain said he wouldn't discuss hypotheticals when asked whether he would support an Israeli attack on Iran, but did say: “I can tell you this: The United States of America is committed to making sure that there is never a second Holocaust. That will be what I do as president of the United States.”

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[Solly Mack]

1. Amazing

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. McCain has no shame at tellling lies. Why didn't he catch Bin Ladin in October 2001?

McCain-McBush has done nothing

[qwlauren35]

11. Thank you for that...

This bin Laden thing is so pathetic, it smells like dead fish.

Bush has had nearly 8 years to catch the man. LET IT LIE!!!!!!!!!!

They are ONLY pulling this out because of the similarity of the names Osama bin Laden and Barack Obama.

But I don't think it will work - the public is used to the Obama name now. They will be much harder to confuse.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

30. Bush and Cheney and McCain had from 2001 to find Bin Ladin - yes it is 2008

and they failed to see the danger before 9/11

[ingac70]

2. An Israeli attack on Iran would be a second Holocaust? n/t

[olddad56]

13. and this country's illegal invasion isn't? How many to we have to kill to qualify?

[YOY]

3. I'm sure if you were actually concerned about catching him he would be Johnny.

n.t.

[kimmylavin]

4. Mr. Bush first.

He deserves it more.

[Politicalboi]

5. enormity of this guy’s crimes,

Excuse me. Where on the FBI list of what "crimes" Osama bin Laden is 9/11? Oh that's right it's not there. These trials should be held for the Bush/Cheney regime. Wouldn't be surprised if McGoo found himself being prosecuted.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

7. I was told that the Keating 5 crime show is unfinished

[Earth_First]

8. Pssst...I know someone else who could be tried right along with him...

Save the courts a bit of $

[David__77]

9. What?! He wants to surrender American sovereignty??!!!!!!!

I'd hammer this one strong if I were Obama. The conservatives could get riled up. lol

[Bandit]

31. Isn't that exactly what Kerry said should happen?

It would be hard to hammer him on something Democrats have been for ever since 9-11 actually happened. It has always been a criminal situation and not military. The USA has become a laughing stock because of how we over reacted after 9-11. The US military was never needed nor warranted. It always has been a matter of Law and Order and never a matter of "War".

[Danieljay]

10. Perhaps he and Bush can share a cell. n/t

[Betsy Ross]

12. And the * administration?

If we can't impeach or prosecute the crimes of *, maybe a "Nuremberg-like" tribunal instead?

[bjobotts]

14. OBL is dead.Has been for years.Any reference to him as a player is void

[bjobotts]

15. So when ever you see his name being used know its bullshit because OBL is DEAD

[NYC Liberal]

16. Bin Laden is dead. Let's put Mr George W. Bush on trial!

[VP505]

17. bin Laden would

die of old age if catching him is left up to this Admin. I am not too sure McSame would be any different, no doubt he also realizes the value bin Laden is to their fearcampaign.

[LeftishBrit]

18. Wouldn't be a bad idea; but they'd need to find him first

Instead of bombing lots of people who have nothing to do with him!

[Taverner]

19. Hell, I think MCCAIN should face war crimes hearings!

[Phred42]

20. He must have ment W

[superconnected]

21. Bush and Cheney first

[FVZA_Colonel]

22. The liklihood of something like this actually happening

under a Republican is a bit small.

[pinniped]

23. This shitbag is making plans for something that will never happen.

Think I'll use my salary to purchase Rockefeller Center.

[Drum]

24. If OBL's alive, it is utterly amazing that the "might" of the US cannot find him.

It is a shameful stain on the Bush presidency. Here in NYC, I feel a shame also that still to date nothing is erected at the former WTC site that even rises to street level. Both of these things---as responses to terrorism---amaze and disappoint me. :(

[Hawkeye-X]

25. *koff* That is purely reserved for Chimp

and his entire maladministration, and that includes you, McFart.

Hawkeye-X

[Trajan]

26. I disagree with the bulk of posters here ...

While I despise the Boy Prince and believe a special place in hell would be too kind for his spoon-fed ass, the crimes of Osama bin Laden are real, to which he has himself confessed .... He HAS confessed to the bombings of the African embassies, of which HUNDREDS of innocent people perished ....

It matters not what Bush or anyone else had done, for that matter: There is no justification for the intentional destruction of innocent human life; not for George Bush, and not for Osama bin Laden ...

He is a self admitted mass murderer, and deserves to be held accountable for his crimes .... It would be wrong to use Bush as an excuse to ignore bin Laden's self confessed criminality .... that would be a Tu Quoque fallacy ....

I would agree that an International tribunal, properly established by multilateral, international consensus, would be a valid forum to seek that justice ....

McCain is an asshole, but that option seems reasonable to me ....

ANYONE who murders innocent people should be brought to justice ... otherwise; just what is the fucking point to living a moral life if we permit such gross violations of human rights to go unpunished ? ....

I expect flames, but that doesn't matter: I expect justice to be universally applied .... It needs to be universally consistent ....

[Pastiche423]

27. When did he confess to 9/11?

[Trajan]

28. He has obliquely confessed to 9-11

Notice that I did not refer to 9-11, though I certainly believe he actively participated in that act of wanton destruction ....

I referred to the two embassy attacks in Africa, which he DID directly agree were his own making ...

He is a mass murderer, and no matter HOW MUCH I despise US conservatives, I cannot let the killing of many hundreds of innocents pass simply because George Bush uses him as his foil ....

We are all of us, each and every one of us, responsible for our OWN acts .... We cannot use someone else's cruelty as justification to commit more cruelty ....

[Pastiche423]

32. No, he did not obliquely confess to 9/11

Besides, he's dead.

[Larkspur]

29. The Nuremburg Trials were real honest trials, not kangaroo trials that the GOP favor

In practice, McCain would never support Nuremburg Trials for Osama.