That's why we will never see any World Court trial convicting USA war criminals
<a href=www.vheadline.com>Venezuela's Electronic News Posted: Friday, June 13, 2003 By: David Cabrera
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:47:43 -0700 (PDT) From: David Cabrera davidckr@yahoo.com To: Editor@VHeadline.com Subject: Al Capone was a decent businessman
Dear Editor: Just like the top mafia don of the depression era would do away with meddlesome journalists and detectives accusing him of thug, delinquent and other epithets, the Bush administration has not hesitated to borrow the logic of a gangster at the peak of power and who dreams on justifying the unjustifiable, even beyond tolerable levels of absurdity, so it explains why we often hear and read ridiculous claims such as the White House telling the world that its troops could never be subjected to an international prosecution, because a move like that could be influenced by "frivolous" and politically-oriented machinations aimed at the discrediting of US generosity abroad.
- We, more than ever, are aware that the newly-approved UN ruling for another exemption of the US from the International Tribunal jurisdiction, is once again a renovated slap in the face to those who still care about what's left of international law.
This recent treacherous show of diplomatic nonsense would have us believe that International Law is a good thing only when it applies to judge the crimes of Saddam Hussein, Slovodan Milosevic, Manuel Noriega, Robert Mugabe and the like ... but suddenly becomes an aberration if anyone dares to denounce the Bush administration for crimes that are often condemned with big fanfare and arrogance when the guilty are instead designated enemies of the so-called civilized West.
That's why we will never see any World Court trial convicting war criminals like Henry Kissinger for the atrocities he supported in Indochina, East Timor and most of South America; or take George Bush Sr., Oliver North and the rest of the Reagan-ites who coordinated the terrorist campaigns against Central American peasants and Catholic priests through the training and financing of death squads and military thugs; also Bill Clinton and the US army commanders responsible for the illegal bombings in Sudan in 1998, which wiped out a pharmaceutics facility that supplied more than half of the medicines of that devastated country, along with other US soldiers that may be implicated in recent cases of torture and massacres in Afghanistan and Iraq.
This is just a minuscule example of dirty deeds that are not convenient to be left to justice because it would look bad within the agenda of "liberation" benevolence from which the US government disguise its crimes abroad but conceal from public scrutiny, all with a little dose of cynicism and hypocrisy of course. Thus, there is no doubt about the highness of those values that Cheney, Rumsfeld and Co uphold and parrot-talk around incessantly, and which they desire to impose worldwide through their doctrine of humanitarian militarism, which message is: "We make a mess, and piss on the rest," apart from the already old-fashioned" Mess with the best die like the rest"
David Cabrera davidckr@yahoo.com