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02-08-2011, 09:45 AM
Obama Should Protest Bush Arrest Threat
February 7th, 2011 at 5:01 pm [/URL]David Frum
<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> CNN International is reporting that George Bush canceled a trip to Switzerland after – and possibly because – a so-called human rights group filed with a Swiss court a request for the ex-president’s arrest.
Here’s (http://www.frumforum.com/author/DavidF/feed) the Guardian’s version of the story:
Human rights groups have vowed to track George W Bush round the world after their success in forcing him to cancel a trip to Switzerland (http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/feb/06/george-bush-trip-to-switzerland) amid concerns over protests and a threatened arrest warrant. …
Since the arrest of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998 over alleged murders, senior politicians linked to war, internal conflict and oppression have had to be more careful in their travel plans.
The Centre for Constitutional Rights, backed by other human rights organizations, has published a 2,500-word “indictment for torture” against Bush. It was to have been filed with a Swiss court today, but that plan had to be dropped when Bush cancelled a visit to Geneva on Saturday to deliver a speech. Under the original plan, a criminal complaint would have been brought on behalf of two former Guantánamo prisoners who claim they were tortured.
It’s hard to know how much of this story is true, and how much is fundraising bluster. But if even a small portion of the news is true, President Obama has a duty to speak up and to warn foreign governments that further indulgence of this kind of nonsense by their court systems will be viewed as an unfriendly act by the United States. It is one more reminder of why the concept of an International Criminal Court is such an invitation to mischief.
And for those inclined to enjoy the mischief: Just wait until somebody serves an arrest warrant in Luxembourg on ex-President Obama for ordering all those drone strikes on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
[URL]http://www.frumforum.com/obama-should-protest-bush-arrest-threat
He should have responded immediately!
Joy
February 7th, 2011 at 5:01 pm [/URL]David Frum
<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --> CNN International is reporting that George Bush canceled a trip to Switzerland after – and possibly because – a so-called human rights group filed with a Swiss court a request for the ex-president’s arrest.
Here’s (http://www.frumforum.com/author/DavidF/feed) the Guardian’s version of the story:
Human rights groups have vowed to track George W Bush round the world after their success in forcing him to cancel a trip to Switzerland (http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/feb/06/george-bush-trip-to-switzerland) amid concerns over protests and a threatened arrest warrant. …
Since the arrest of the late Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998 over alleged murders, senior politicians linked to war, internal conflict and oppression have had to be more careful in their travel plans.
The Centre for Constitutional Rights, backed by other human rights organizations, has published a 2,500-word “indictment for torture” against Bush. It was to have been filed with a Swiss court today, but that plan had to be dropped when Bush cancelled a visit to Geneva on Saturday to deliver a speech. Under the original plan, a criminal complaint would have been brought on behalf of two former Guantánamo prisoners who claim they were tortured.
It’s hard to know how much of this story is true, and how much is fundraising bluster. But if even a small portion of the news is true, President Obama has a duty to speak up and to warn foreign governments that further indulgence of this kind of nonsense by their court systems will be viewed as an unfriendly act by the United States. It is one more reminder of why the concept of an International Criminal Court is such an invitation to mischief.
And for those inclined to enjoy the mischief: Just wait until somebody serves an arrest warrant in Luxembourg on ex-President Obama for ordering all those drone strikes on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
[URL]http://www.frumforum.com/obama-should-protest-bush-arrest-threat
He should have responded immediately!
Joy