Why is the USA so afraid of little Belgium ?

[Defiant]

Elijah,
You don't get it. Americans would be targeted for no other reason then being American, we have a big fat target on our ass and other countries would love to hammer some of our boys, there would be no fair trials.
Not as long a countries like Libya and Cuba sit on United Nation Human Rights committees, c'mon the whole thing is a flippin joke.

[H Tower]

Originally posted by Worthingtons
France,Belgium and Germany are no Allies of ours and therefore should have the headquarters of our 'alliance'.
The Nato headquarters should be in the UK.

Funny, the last time I checked, France, Belgium and Germany were still in Nato and would have some kind of say in this. If anything, Nato headquarters should be moved EAST towards the center of the alliance bceause it's been expanding eastward

[Whaleboy]

If it was not a fair trial, the Americans would raise hell. Also, the US would hire its best and brightest to win, so it wont be a fair trial, but in the other direction. Besides, theyre creating more suspicion by staying away.

[Defiant]

It doesnt' matter what we hire if it is a kangaroo court and hit would be, raising all the hell in the world won't help the sacraficial lambs and I am not about to let the boys who die for this country become someone else's puppet, we will take care of our own if they do wrong.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by elijah
If the US has nothing to hide, then let him be arrested and tried.

We have nothing to hide, but, neither do we have any confidience in what is obviously a politically motivated kangoroo court.

[Panag]

hi ,

here is a simple solution
nato and shape out of belgium , belgium out of nato and shape

lets see the next time they come crying for us for a c-5 to transport some troops to africa , ......

have a nice day

[Lazerus]

Even if/when the US won you know there'd be just a deadly silence afterwards and everybody would forget about it. However if the US lost they can expect to be reminded about it for the next 35years so its pretty obvious why they'd rather just pretend belgium doesn't exist since it most likely won't on any decent maps made in the US

[Dinner]

I say we pass our own law making it illegal for foreign courts to tie US citizens for war crime or crimes against humanity. We can make it a 20 year sentence to try and that way we can start hounding the leftist scum as well as they can our boys.

Two can play the extra territoriality game.

[Giancarlo]

Originally posted by elijah
If it was not a fair trial, the Americans would raise hell. Also, the US would hire its best and brightest to win, so it wont be a fair trial, but in the other direction. Besides, theyre creating more suspicion by staying away.

Forget it. No trial is necessary because the US did nothing wrong in invading Iraq.. especially not Franks. If there is something this court should be preparing for is perhaps some Iraqi Republican Guard generals or something?

[Colon™]

Re: Re: Why is the USA so afraid of little Belgium ?

Originally posted by Ming


It's all politics... If they want to play their silly little games, the US will play theirs as well.

What games are we playing Ming? Don't tell me you can't make a distinction between prosecutor and judge.

If there's anything politicised about this case it's because we sent it to your military tribunals.

[DinoDoc]

Re: Why is the USA so afraid of little Belgium ?

Originally posted by Flandrien
I mean, what do they think they can achieve with this ?

They might want thier officials to visit NATO headquarters without dieing from laughter brought on by the thought of such asanine charges.

[Dinner]

Re: Re: Re: Why is the USA so afraid of little Belgium ?

Originally posted by Colon
What games are we playing Ming? Don't tell me you can't make a distinction between prosecutor and judge.

If there's anything politicised about this case it's because we sent it to your military tribunals.

Can you name a single person tried by a military tribunal in the US since the Nazi sabatuers in 1944? I didn't think so especially since one hasn't occured. All Bush has done is point out that under the Geneva & Hague conventions Tribunals are expressly permited.

[Arrian]

Even if/when the US won you know there'd be just a deadly silence afterwards and everybody would forget about it. However if the US lost they can expect to be reminded about it for the next 35years

Bingo. It's lose/lose for the US. I would add this: even if/when the US won, anything "questionable" that was raised at the trial would be harped on for a decade or three as well.

-Arrian

[SlowwHand]

Sure. Come on and get Tommy. He's had worse on his danged eyeball.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Worthingtons
'Old Europe' cannot be trusted anymore, it's not a matter of this one fella but as someone else said International politics. What Happened last century needs to be forgotten - France,Belgium and Germany are no Allies of ours and therefore should have the headquarters of our 'alliance'.
The Nato headquarters should be in the UK.

France is no ally of yours.....So of course France didn't save Americans in Liberia.

Instead it was....um....JESUS!!!! JESUS came down and brought forth the holy Americans from the Garden of Liberia, and brought them up to heaven, and smited the French for not rescuing them!!! Thats it....Yeah