Condi, War Crimes & the Press

[norml]

April 3, 2006

Condi, War Crimes & the Press
by Robert Parry


http://www.opednews.com

During the three years of carnage in Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has shifted away from her now-discredited warning about a “mushroom cloud” to assert a strategic rationale for the invasion that puts her squarely in violation of the Nuremberg principle against aggressive war.

On March 31 in remarks to a group of British foreign policy experts, Rice justified the U.S.-led invasion by saying that otherwise Iraqi President Saddam Hussein “wasn’t going anywhere” and “you were not going to have a different Middle East with Saddam Hussein at the center of it.”

Rice’s comments in Blackburn, England, followed
similar remarks during a March 26 interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in which she defended the invasion of Iraq as necessary forthe eradication of the “old Middle East” where a supposed culture of hatred indirectly contributed to the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

“If you really believe that the only thing that happened on 9/11 was people flew airplanes into buildings, I think you have a very narrow view of what we faced on 9/11,” Rice said. “We faced the outcome of an ideology of hatred throughout the Middle East that had to be dealt with. Saddam Hussein was a part of that old Middle East. The new Iraq will be a part of the new Middle East, and we will all be safer.”


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http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_robert_p_060403_condi_2c_war_crimes__26_.htm

[oasis]

1. The Rove transformation of Clueless Condi into the "Sage of the Age".

:puke: You've come a long way baby, from the days of the August 6 PDB to the press conference about "tradition hijackings".

The most important thing that still remains unchanged about Condi's persona is that no thinking person believes she tells the truth.

[Oversea Visitor]

2. Want to bet that millions of Iraqies was with US just after 911

Yeah they dont hate the US......
but now.......
Why dear GOD do the millions now hate the US

[understandinglife]

3. K&R. Here's the link to Parry's site, Consortium News.

http://consortiumnews.com/2006/040306.html

This is an important article.


Peace.

[norml]

4. From The Greatest Page: "The War Crimes Confession of Condi Rice"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=837579&mesg_id=837579


The War Crimes Confession of Condi Rice



The incomparable Robert Parry puts Condi Rice clearly in the frame for war crimes after her extraordinary confessions during her trip to the UK last week -- confessions that have been entirely ignored by the US press. While there was a brief flurry over her casual remark about "thousands of tactical mistakes" in Iraq, no one but Parry caught her admission -- nay, her boast -- that the Bush Regime's policy in Iraq was an open, deliberate, carefully considered violation of the Nuremberg-based laws against aggressive war: principles articulated most forcefully by America's own representative to that international tribunal, and which were later incorporated into the UN Charter.

As Parry notes, Rice confessed that the Bush Administration launched an unprovoked invasion and occupation of Iraq to effect a unilateral "regime change" for political and ideological purposes -- the same crime for which the Hitler Administration was justly condemned at Nuremberg. This action was and is illegal under the Nuremberg principles, the UN Charter and United States law.

The implications of all this are unavoidable. Americans are now living under a criminal regime, a rogue junta that no longer feels the need to disguise its criminality. Hence Rice's confession; hence Bush's confession about illegal wiretapping of American citizens; hence the Administration's bold protestations in open court that the president cannot be bound by any act of Congress or judicial ruling in carrying out his "inherent" powers as Commander-in-Chief; hence the Supreme Court's craven kowtowing to this presidential dictatorship in its ruling yesterday in the Padilla case, when the Justices simply refused to address the issue of Padilla's years-long "indefinite detention without any formal charges or, for 20 months, any contact with the outside world.

SNIP

http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=582&Itemid=1