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In reply to the discussion: IF USA Cares About Int'l War Crimes Law-We Would Do Better By Delivering Cheney To The Hague-Instead [View all]truedelphi
(32,324 posts)66. Interestng tht the indictment against the current President of Kenya
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Is Concerned with the deaths of 1,300 people.
Somehow it seems - kill a whole lot of people, like the head of the Congo has (Six million!) and no worries, be happy.
Kill a mere hundred to two thousand, and you could be in trouble.
Here is a good summary of what The USA polcies in Kenya were like up to 2008:
http://concernedafricascholars.org/african-security-research-project/?p=3
Note how cheap it is for our military to control a small African country. For under 600K, we got control of Kenya's military.
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IF USA Cares About Int'l War Crimes Law-We Would Do Better By Delivering Cheney To The Hague-Instead [View all]
kpete
Aug 2013
OP
It would have far more meaning, IMHO, if our own DoJ prosecuted Cheney and other
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#48
And yet, the entire world (except for Russia and China) expect us to doing something
FSogol
Aug 2013
#31
For using Chemical Weapons in Fallujah alone. The number of babies being born
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#23
One can use the same arguments vis-a-vis Bush/Cheney war crimes and Assad's alleged use of CW
Maedhros
Aug 2013
#27