Quite a world when the country that brought us death camps and the elimination of six millions jews wants to go after Rumsfeld for “war crimes”

Note: This action is being brought to you by uber commie Michael Ratner (more on him here:

“Just days after his resignation, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany’s top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.”

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“The plaintiffs in the case include 11 Iraqis who were prisoners at Abu Ghraib, as well as Mohammad al-Qahtani, a Saudi held at Guantanamo, whom the U.S. has identified as the so-called “20th hijacker” and a would-be participant in the 9/11 hijackings. As TIME first reported in June 2005, Qahtani underwent a “special interrogation plan,” personally approved by Rumsfeld, which the U.S. says produced valuable intelligence. But to obtain it, according to the log of his interrogation and government reports, Qahtani was subjected to forced nudity, sexual humiliation, religious humiliation, prolonged stress positions, sleep deprivation and other controversial interrogation techniques.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs say that one of the witnesses who will testify on their behalf is former Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, the one-time commander of all U.S. military prisons in Iraq. Karpinski”

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Karpinski…..?

Back to my nap.

UPDATE: To get the gist of why I’m not giving this any weight at all read the link to Michael Ratner above.

A sample:

“Michael Ratner began his legal career in the late 1960s at the National Lawyers Guild, a Soviet created front group which still embraces its Communist heritage. He worked his way up through the NLG‚Äôs radical ranks to become its president, then moved on to hold the same position at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which shares the NLG’s anti-American radicalism and was founded by pro-Castro lawyers Arthur Kinoy and William Kunstler. Among its many outrages, the CCR has defended domestic and international terrorists, and has honored Ratner’s NLG colleague and convicted terrorist enabler Lynne Stewart, a modern Legal Left idol. Since 9/11, Ratner and his comrades have attempted to extend undeserved ‚Äúcivil rights‚Äù to Islamist murderers with notable success. On this front, Ratner and the Legal Left have dealt America some of its few setbacks in the War on Terror.

One year ago the U.S. suffered its first major loss in this war, a strategic and propaganda defeat, related to America‚Äôs abilities to imprison and interrogate enemies that it captures. Abu Ghraib was a huge propaganda victory, both for Islamists, who used it to ‚Äújustify‚Äù their violent attacks, and for fifth column leftists, who made use of the media‚Äôs saturation coverage to portray the U.S. as the world‚Äôs biggest oppressor, the Bush administration as a cabal of Nazi thugs, and the Iraq war as an immoral undertaking. The gross overplay of that prison scandal in concert with other overblown and sometimes fabricated stories ‚Äì like Newsweek‚Äôs ‚ÄúKoran in the toilet‚Äù canard ‚Äì emboldened Islamic terrorists, eroded U.S. public support for the War on Terror, and damaged America‚Äôs credibility around the world.”

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