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Old 08-17-2008, 09:56 PM   #1 (permalink)
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DOJ Close to Charging Blackwater in Iraqi Massacre
Justice Dept. Moves Toward Charges Against Contractors in Iraq Shooting
Del Quentin Wilber and Karen DeYoung
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, August 17, 2008; Page A01

An Iraqi policeman inspects a car that was destroyed when Blackwater security guards opened fire in Baghdad, killing 17 civilians. (By Khalid Mohammed -- Associated Press)

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Federal prosecutors have sent target letters to six Blackwater Worldwide security guards involved in a September shooting that left 17 Iraqi civilians dead, indicating a high likelihood the Justice Department will seek to indict at least some of the men, according to three sources close to the case.

The guards, all former U.S. military personnel, were working as security contractors for the State Department, assigned to protect U.S. diplomats and other non-military officials in Iraq. The shooting occurred when their convoy arrived at a busy square in central Baghdad and guards tried to stop traffic.

An Iraqi government investigation concluded that the security contractors fired without provocation. Blackwater has said its personnel acted in self-defense.
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This only means they've found someone low on the totem pole who'll take the rap.

They won't actaulyl charge the company or its unholy boss because that'll require charging an administration which allowed those cretins to operate free of consequences.
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and the ones who put these murdering bastards over there get away scot free
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something is better than nothing?
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something is better than nothing?
It would be, but this is about how we got nothing. The perp will be a nobody while the somebody's get away with it.
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something is better than nothing?
Sorry luv, I'm greedy. I want it all. Investigation, indictments, incarceration.
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Seriously, if Impeachment does not get rolling, the next prez will can simply agree to participate in in the International Criminal Court in the Hague and their sorry asses can be hauled off by any citizen of the world that has a legitimate charge against bushco that the ICC agrees to take up.

Easy.
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Seriously, if Impeachment does not get rolling, the next prez will can simply agree to participate in in the International Criminal Court in the Hague and their sorry asses can be hauled off by any citizen of the world that has a legitimate charge against bushco that the ICC agrees to take up.

Easy.
We don't recognize the Hague, dear. Never have I think. Something to do with Kissinger, Cambodia, Laos and tonnage.
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Sorry luv, I'm greedy. I want it all. Investigation, indictments, incarceration.
I say nothing short of treason charges will satisfy me.

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Seriously, if Impeachment does not get rolling, the next prez will can simply agree to participate in in the International Criminal Court in the Hague and their sorry asses can be hauled off by any citizen of the world that has a legitimate charge against bushco that the ICC agrees to take up.

Easy.
I'm not convinced Obama will go for it and I know McCain won't.
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International Criminal Court
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The International Criminal Court (ICC or ICCt)[1] was established in 2002 as a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression, although it cannot currently exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression.[2][3] The Court came into being on 1 July 2002 — the date its founding treaty, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, entered into force[4] — and it can only prosecute crimes committed on or after that date.
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So all crimes leading up to Iraq and beyond would fall nicely into their jurisdiction.
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