Days before Bradley - now Chelsea - Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison for helping expose U.S. war crimes in Iraq, the Obama Department of Justice filed a petition in federal court arguing that the perpetrators of those crimes - Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al - enjoy “absolute immunity” against criminal charges or civil liability. The filing came in a suit brought by Sundus Shaker Saleh, an Iraqi single mother and refugee now living in Jordan, who alleges that the planning and waging of the Iraq war under false pretenses constituted a "crime of aggression" under a law used in the Nuremberg trials.Meanwhile, after the revolution...
8.27.2013
the standard double-standard: prison for war resisters, immunity for war criminals
Abby Zimet reports on Common Dreams:
Labels:
fascist shift,
us politics,
war and peace,
war resisters,
wikileaks
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