Oh my god...

[Micha]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar

PATRIOT ALERT!

The terrorist organisation, also known by the lesserpeoples as the "Red Cross" has attempted to defy the will of the Ameryan civilisation by demanding that America, the chosen nation of our lord God, Jesus Christ, and the HOLY GHOST, respect international law!
Clearly we must condemn this with the utmost vigor! Any members of this organisation are clearly not Ameryan, and thus will be shipped to "Fun Camps" located across the nation where they will be allowed to play and have fun until genetic purity can be established

Hail Bush!

Tass, you spoke out what I was just thinking

[Dinner]

Ok, you anti-America types. Read them and weep. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3807119.stm

For the lazy it says the US will hand over all remaining prisoners of war (that includes Saddam) to the new Iraqi government with in the next two weeks.

[Dinner]

Jesus, you people got yourselves into a feeding frenzy without even waiting to hear the diplomatic response.

[Nubclear]

If you, Oerdin, had bothered to read the thread you would know that we were responding to Drakes suggestion of "Oh my god! This is so shocking! How dare the Red Cross even demand such a thing!"

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
If you, Oerdin, had bothered to read the thread you would know that we were acting like idiots.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Ok, you anti-America types.

We weren't the ones in a frenzy.

[Straybow]

No, the ICRC are the ones holding themselves as the paragons of virtue and morality above the lesser peoples who merely put their lives on the line to depose the abusive dictator instead of making excuses why nothing can be done.

If they want to change their mission, then they should be prepared to lose the credibility and privelege they've gained through scrupulously fulfilling their original mission.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Straybow
No, the ICRC are the ones holding themselves as the paragons of virtue and morality above the lesser peoples who merely put their lives on the line to depose the abusive dictator instead of making excuses why nothing can be done.

Not this hypocritical sound bite again.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Straybow
No, the ICRC are the ones holding themselves as the paragons of virtue and morality above the lesser peoples who merely put their lives on the line to depose the abusive dictator instead of making excuses why nothing can be done.

By that reasoning, *every* nation thats *ever* fought a war is above international law
It is time for Russia to reclaim its outer territories

[Urban Ranger]

The United States and the new Iraqi government were mired in disagreement last night over the fate of Saddam Hussein after George Bush said Iraqi demands for immediate custody of the former dictator could not be met until it was certain the new regime had the ability to keep him in jail.

Mr Bush also jumped to the defence of his vice-president, Dick Cheney, who insisted, despite the deep scepticism of the intelligence community, that Saddam had had close links to al-Qaida.

As the differences on Saddam grew starker, Iraq's interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi, backpedalled from remarks he made late on Monday, when he said the captured leader would be in Iraqi custody within a fortnight.

link

[Drake Tungsten]

Did anyone link to a story about the ICRC backpedaling from their ridiculous previous statement on the need for Saddam's release? It was pretty funny...

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Sounds like a job for cut and paste man. Defender of the ill informed.

Where oh where can he be?

[Cruddy]

I don't see the problem at all.

The day the Red Cross stops standing up for the rights of the detained will be a defeat for humanity.

Even examples like Saddam. If we use his methods, we lower ourselves to his level.

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm like Supercitizen, only far lamer...

Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Sounds like a job for cut and paste man. Defender of the ill informed.

Where oh where can he be?

You rang?

U.S. said to give Iraq Saddam in 2 weeks

By FISNIK ABRASHI
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The United States will hand over Saddam Hussein and all other detainees to Iraq's new government over the next two weeks as sovereignty is restored, the interim prime minister said Monday.

U.S. officials have said they plan to continue to hold up to 5,000 prisoners deemed a threat to the coalition even after the restoration of Iraqi sovereignty at the end of this month. They say as many as 1,400 detainees will either be released or transferred to Iraqi authorities.

However, in an interview with Al-Jazeera television, Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said Iraqi officials expect to take possession of Saddam and all other detainees with the transfer of power.

"All the detainees will be transferred to the Iraqi authorities and the transporting operation will be done within the two coming weeks," Allawi said. "Saddam and the others will be delivered to the Iraqis."

He said the former Iraqi president would stand trial "as soon as possible" but gave no specific timeframe. The detainees and "Saddam as well will be handed to the Iraqi government, and you can consider this as an official confirmation," he added.

Saddam has been in American custody at an undisclosed location in Iraq since his capture last December near Tikrit. His status has been under discussion as the formal end of the U.S.-led occupation approaches.

In Geneva, the spokeswoman of the International Committee of the Red Cross said coalition authorities must file criminal charges against Saddam or let him go when sovereignty is transferred.

Under international and military law, prisoners of war and civilian internees are supposed to be freed at the end of the conflict and occupation, unless there are charges against them, Red Cross spokeswoman Nada Doumani said.

Saddam was granted prisoner of war status after his capture. Although he is alleged to have committed crimes against his own people, he has not been charged with any offense.

"If he is not charged, then the law says that at the end of war, of occupation, he should be released," Doumani told Associated Press Television News.

In Geneva, the chief spokeswoman of the international Red Cross, Antonella Notari, said the organization was not calling for Saddam's release but simply stating the rules under international law.

"We're not making any ultimatums or calls for release," Notari said. "What we're saying is: Saddam Hussein, as far as we understand today, is a POW, prisoner of war, protected by the third Geneva Convention as all prisoners of war are.

"In theory, when a war ends and when an occupation ends, the detaining force has to release prisoners of war or civilian detainees if there are no reasons for holding them," she said.

But Notari added that "a prisoner of war who is suspected of having committed a crime must not just be released. Of course, he must be prosecuted, tried, through a legal proceeding."

She said it was up to U.S. authorities to decide what they will do about Saddam - whether to charge him, or hand him over to the Iraqis for trial.

Although Iraqis will run their own affairs after June 30, tens of thousands of coalition troops will remain in the country to maintain security under a resolution approved unanimously last week by the U.N. Security Council.

After the handover of sovereignty, detainees held by the Iraqi authorities will be subject to Iraqi law.

Mohammed Rashdan, a Jordanian attorney who claims to represent Saddam, said the Red Cross's stand "violates international and military law."

"Under the provisions of international laws and conventions, ICRC should have only called for Saddam Hussein's release," Rashdan told The Associated Press in neighboring Jordan.

He accused the Red Cross of serving the United States "in every possible way."

"The ICRC should help Saddam's defense lawyers to meet with him - the minimum requirement of the due process in developed nations," Rashdan said.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Oerdin
the US will hand over all remaining prisoners of war (that includes Saddam) to the new Iraqi government with in the next two weeks.

Will the new Iraqi regime have the death penalty? Much as I'd like to be against in all circumstances, I've never got to see a mass murderer fry, and it would be quite an experience.

Besides, I've had economics today, and I've had to write just a bit more about "the abundance of 'human capital'" than my poor leftist brain can handle. Fry the bastard.

After a proper, fair and impartial trial of course