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U.S. preparing war crimes dossier on Sammy and friends...
The United States has begun assembling a war crimes dossier to prosecute Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein for genocide, ethnic cleansing, rape, mass executions and other crimes against humanity. The dossier is evidence of the Bush administration's mounting preparations for the proposed "regime change" in Iraq.I don't think they'll end up using the dossier, though. I think they plan to "kill him." President George Bush, who will present his case on national television in the US this morning, kept up the pressure over the weekend, warning in his regular radio address that "delay, indecision and inaction are not an option for the American people because they could lead to massive and sudden horror". The danger to Americans, he said, was "grave and growing". Just as a hypothetical, a single gunman could maybe roam around a suburban county or two, potting people at random with a high-powered rifle. There's also the possibility of exploding autos, roving gangs of indignant turbans killing people in their homes, attacks on polling places, candidates, newspapers, all sorts of things. He doesn't need WMD to strike against the U.S. They're more part of his personal kink. There are enough tools in place to cause us damage... The dossier against President Saddam and at least 12 other Iraqi officials is being prepared by the State Department, the Pentagon and intelligence experts. "We need to do our part to document the abuses, to collect the evidence that points to who is responsible," said Pierre-Richard Prosper, the State Department's ambassador for war crimes. "We feel there has to be accountability for what has occurred. You can't brush aside the deaths of more than 100,000 people." Not without being a true Transnational Progressive Multilateralist, anyway... Half of the dozen names on the list are members of President Saddam's family: two sons, three half-brothers and a cousin. The cousin, Ali Hassan Majid, was nicknamed "chemical Ali" for his role in a 1988 operation that used chemical weapons to kill tens of thousands of Kurds in northern Iraq. US officials estimate that at least 130,000 civilians have been killed during President Saddam's 23-year rule. Ali Hassan was also governor of Kuwait when it was Iraq's 19th province... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-10-07 |
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