Who Is Germany To Talk?
According to Time Magazine’s Adam Zagorin,
“Just days after his resignation, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is about to face more repercussions for his involvement in the troubled wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. New legal documents, to be filed next week with Germany’s top prosecutor, will seek a criminal investigation and prosecution of Rumsfeld, along with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet and other senior U.S. civilian and military officers, for their alleged roles in abuses committed at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison and at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.”
“The plaintiffs in the case include 11 Iraqis who were prisoners at Abu Ghraib, as well as Mohammad al-Qahtani, a Saudi held at Guantanamo, whom the U.S. has identified as the so-called “20th hijacker” and a would-be participant in the 9/11 hijackings. As TIME first reported in June 2005, Qahtani underwent a “special interrogation plan,” personally approved by Rumsfeld, which the U.S. says produced valuable intelligence. But to obtain it, according to the log of his interrogation and government reports, Qahtani was subjected to forced nudity, sexual humiliation, religious humiliation, prolonged stress positions, sleep deprivation and other controversial interrogation techniques.”
Many of us saw this coming. Just yesterday, Democracy Now! had on Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, almost bragging that this criminal investigation was coming down.
Is Bill O’Reilly going to call for another European boycott, this time of Germany? Can we really do without Audis and Bayer aspirin?
I kind of look forward to this investigation, as long as it’s in the open and we can take a look at the evidence. Are these plaintiffs mere dupes for liberals who needed yet another victim just to make a case? If these people who were interrogated are guilty of the crime they were captured for, just how many lives may have been saved with the information extracted from them.
Maybe German lives….
Some of the countries where these detainees come from would have no trouble torturing, and let’s not forget, beheading the innocent, let alone the guilty.
And just who are these Germans to talk to anyone about war criminals? Let us not forget, it was Germany who gave the world:
Herman Goring
Successor-designate to Hitler; President of the Reichstag; Commander of the Air Force; President of the Council of Ministers for Defense of the Reich; Head of Hermann Goring Combine; General of the SS.Joachim Ribbentrop
Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs. Member of Secret Cabinet Council; General of the SS.Rudolf Hess
Deputy to Hitler, and successor designate after Goring. Member of Secret Cabinet Council. General of the SS.Ernst Kaltenrunner
General of Police; Head of Reich Main Security Office (RSHA); Chief of Security Police and Security Service.Alfred Rosenberg
Reich Minister for Occupied Eastern Territories; Commissioner for ideo-logical education; organizer of Einsatzstab Reichsleiter (Looting Organization).Hans Frank
Former Bavarian Minister of Justice; Governor General of Poland; General of the SS.Martin Bormann
Chief of Chancery of the Nazi Party; Member of the War Cabinet; General of the SS.Wilhelm Frick
Reich “ Protector †of Bohemia and Moravia; Minister of the Interior; Reichsleiter of the Nazi Party.Fritz Sauckel
Gauleiter (party leader) of Thuringia. Plenipotentiary (ambassador) for Manpower in Germany and Occupied Territories. General of the SS.Albert Speer
Minister for Armaments; Head of Todt (Nazi construction and engineering group) organization; Reichsleiter (one of the highest political offices in the Nazi Party).Walter Funk
Reich Minister for Economics; President of Reich Bank; member of the War Cabinet.Constantin von Neurath
Professional diplomat: Reich “ Protector †of Bohemia and Moravia: General of the SS.Baldur von Schirach
Reichsleiter of Nazi Party; Youth Leader; Gauleiter (Nazi party leader) of Vienna.Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Deputy Governor of Poland; Reich Commissioner for Occupied Holland. General of the SS.Julius Streicher
Gauleiter of Franconia; militant anti-Semite; editor of “Der Sturmer” (he most infamous newspaper in history, most notorious for its anti-Semitic cartoons).Wilhelm Keitel
Field Marshal; Chief of Supreme High Command; Member of Cabinet Council.Alfred Jodl
Chief of Supreme Staff.Erich Raeder
High Admiral.Karl Donitz
High Admiral; Commander of the U-Boat arm; Commander-in-Chief of Navy.Heinrich Himmler
Reich’s Leader of SS. Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism; Reichsleiter of Nazi Party.Robert Ley
Leader of the Nazi Labor Front; Organizer of Central Inspection of Foreign Workers; General of the SS.
I find it unbelievable that Germany, that produced some of the most feared, and hated, war criminals ever, has the business to point a finger at anyone, especially since Nazi-wannabes still roam freely there today.
If we don’t stand up to these socialist bullies, they’ll be indicting the troops next. Thank God, they don’t have the guts to attack us. They’d wind up with all our liberals as refugees….
