Ex-Guantanamo Prisoners Suing Rumsfeld
How interesting. At least, interesting in a way similar to how it might be interesting if an over-caffeinated squirrel scampered up and started gnawing on your ankle. Your ankle, not mine.
Rumsfeld is being sued by 11 Iraqis and 1 Saudi in German court for alleged war crime abuses in Guantanamo Bay. What a crock. Being held as a prisoner-of-war is all part of war. What part of "war" don't people understand? War is a brutal, messy, dreadful, but sometimes extremely necessary thing. People get hurt and - yes, don't gasp - killed during war.
Being held as a prisoner-of-war should not equate to being at the Club Med or even being held in a typical American prison (complete with color TV, hot showers, modern exercise equipment, free college education, and extremely well-balanced meals).
Of course, Angela Merkel and most of the German population are disgusted at the charges, but are bound by the inherent liberality of the German judicial system, which basically allows loonies like the 12 in question to prance in and sue away at whoever they please.
The so-called right to press suit against anyone for whatever reason at all has completely gotten out of hand. We have black people wanting white people to pay up due to what other people did over a hundred years ago (and why aren't they heading over to Africa to sue the tribes over there that originally sold their great-great-great-etcs into slavery?). We have people suing McDonalds over too-hot coffee. We have burglars suing the burgled due to overly dangerous house environments (ie., the burglar tripped on Junior's skateboard while burling and broke his leg). We have treehuggers suing loggers on behalf of the spotted owl (who probably doesn't give a &*#$ about the whole thing, but would be happy just to poop on anyone's head). And now we have prisoners-of-war suing those who imprisoned them and neglected to bring them their Kurans with sufficent humility and reverence.
What a crock.
Rumsfeld is being sued by 11 Iraqis and 1 Saudi in German court for alleged war crime abuses in Guantanamo Bay. What a crock. Being held as a prisoner-of-war is all part of war. What part of "war" don't people understand? War is a brutal, messy, dreadful, but sometimes extremely necessary thing. People get hurt and - yes, don't gasp - killed during war.
Being held as a prisoner-of-war should not equate to being at the Club Med or even being held in a typical American prison (complete with color TV, hot showers, modern exercise equipment, free college education, and extremely well-balanced meals).
Of course, Angela Merkel and most of the German population are disgusted at the charges, but are bound by the inherent liberality of the German judicial system, which basically allows loonies like the 12 in question to prance in and sue away at whoever they please.
The so-called right to press suit against anyone for whatever reason at all has completely gotten out of hand. We have black people wanting white people to pay up due to what other people did over a hundred years ago (and why aren't they heading over to Africa to sue the tribes over there that originally sold their great-great-great-etcs into slavery?). We have people suing McDonalds over too-hot coffee. We have burglars suing the burgled due to overly dangerous house environments (ie., the burglar tripped on Junior's skateboard while burling and broke his leg). We have treehuggers suing loggers on behalf of the spotted owl (who probably doesn't give a &*#$ about the whole thing, but would be happy just to poop on anyone's head). And now we have prisoners-of-war suing those who imprisoned them and neglected to bring them their Kurans with sufficent humility and reverence.
What a crock.
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