
So, there may be good reason to suspect that vacation spots may be hard for Donald Rumsfeld to come by where he can have confidence that he wont be picked up by French authorities. According to an article posted on Firedoglake, Rummy had to pull a Houdini and exit out a back door straight to the U.S. embassy in order to evade being arrested by French prosecutors acting on a complaint brought by the "Center for Constitutional Rights, the International Federation for Human Rights and several other NGOs."
He was quickly whisked out of the country.
He was quickly whisked out of the country.
This was the fifth time Rumsfeld had been charged with direct involvement in torture since 9/11. The complaint states that "Rumsfeld authorized interrogation techniques that led to abuses at US-run prisons in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay."
It is up to states like France, and any others who would dare, to prosecute human rights violations such as the one Rumsfeld and others are allegedly responsible for committing in Iraq. Despite a trail of documentation and memos that implicate Rumsfeld and other high ranking officials in torture, sometimes resulting in death, there has been no substantial investigation by U.S. or Iraqi authorities. Therefore, in accordance with the 1984 Convention Against Torture, which was ratified by both the U.S. and France, it is up to other states to carry out justice in order to determine which parties are to be held accountable for their crimes.
Let us implore the other nations of the world that they may carry out with integrity that which our own government has proven incapable of doing. However, it is more accurate to say that the U.S. government is really unwilling to carry out this justice, since to say incapable implies a lack of competence. But this is really more a case of collusion on the part of those who make up a system of checks and balances that is all but none existent within our current government.
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