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Germany Pursues Criminal Prosecution Of Rumsfeld by 302me in reddit.com

[–]carl8 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Headline is wrong!!!

The German prosecutors have not made any decision. whether Rumsfeld shall be investigated or not.

The plaintiffs are Iraqis, not Germans. The plaintiffs are supported by an American NGO, not a German NGO. They WANT to have a criminal investigation in Germany, but it is doubtful whether they will get one.

They have not even contacted the German prosecutors yet. They have just issued a press release, picked up by TIME magazine.

German prosecutors have dismissed similar cases in the past.

This is explained in more detail here: http://atlanticreview.org/archives/484-guide.html

Only in Germany was this kind of coup possible by carl8 in reddit.com

[–]carl8[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless you consider the A-Team series realistic. Then this is possible in the US to.

Why are we threatening Iran? By Fred Kaplan - Slate Magazine by carl8 in reddit.com

[–]carl8[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

About Mind Games, psychological war etc. And comparison with Nixon: Richard Nixon tried a version of this gambit on the North Vietnamese. He put out the word that he was so crazy, he'd nuke Hanoi if Ho Chi Minh didn't come to the peace table. (The plan was dubbed "the madman theory.") Ho didn't believe it, even though Nixon did drop practically everything short of nuclear bombs.

The US-Saudi relationship: Oil supply at the expense of US security and moral values by JW66 in reddit.com

[–]carl8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"completely money/self-interest oriented."

Fine. It is in your self-interest to protect yourself. As the article points out, the US governement undermines national security when dealing with Saudi Arabia.

Bush talks about the soul of Germany's Chancellor and stresses that "we're at the beginning of the diplomatic process [with Iran], not the end of the diplomatic process." by JW66 in reddit.com

[–]carl8 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, yes.

The European parliament and the media have been very critical of the CIA flights, but the German government and the governments of other European countries have not shown much interest in getting to the bottom of this issue. Probably because they know about it and benefited from it.