Obama Should Protest Bush Arrest Threat

[darrels joy]

Obama Should Protest Bush Arrest Threat

February 7th, 2011 at 5:01 pm David Frum


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 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 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.

http://www.frumforum.com/obama-shoul...-arrest-threat

He should have responded immediately!

Joy

[reconeil]

"Warn foreign governments" by one famed for & accustomed APOLOGIZING to foreign governments?

GET REAL?

Neil

[reconeil]

Awe-come on? I figure it's pretty-much even money that: "His Barackness" & Holder likely instigated or somehow helped that Swiss Arrest Threat on Bush come to be,...just like normally try stifling or marginalizing any & all Opposition here in America.

Besides, & since Bush is neither dark-skinned or hispanic, doesn't that also make him: "Fair Game" for Obama's Department of Justice & all other biased against whites right here in America, anyway?

Yeah, sure. Black Panther &: "Viva la Raza" or Long Live The Race fanatics are all wonderful Americans,...whereas & pervertedly according to Pelosi & Crowd all peaceful & elderly Tea Party Protester types are: "Vile & viciously-vindictive Nazis", or worse. Damn!!!

Knew Old Nancy, Cohorts or Gang are Quite Honesty & Integrity Challenged to start with.
But,...are such Obamacrats obvious Perverters of Truths & Realities & Lying Nuts ALSO???

Of course not always. Solely when "They" open their mouths in public. In secret? Eh?

Neil