Kissinger to be extradited?

[Jack the Bodiless]

Chilean Judge Seeks To Extradite Kissinger

"We will make no distinction between terrorists and the governments who harbor them" - George W. Bush

Perhaps Dutch commandos could aid the Chileans in a snatch operation?

[MOBIUS]

Obviously the reason why the US will never sign the Hague's War Crimes legislation - Kissinger would be 1st out the door, followed by hundreds of other former or current US officials...

[Sikander]

Originally posted by MOBIUS
Obviously the reason why the US will never sign the Hague's War Crimes legislation - Kissinger would be 1st out the door, followed by hundreds of other former or current US officials...

The difference between you and Kissinger Mobius, is that I trust Kissinger. If you had a tiny percentage of the power Kissinger had you would be covered in a good deal more blood than he.

[Provost Harrison]

As they say to the victors the spoils of war. The thing is, because of the US and it's power, it doesn't consider it's acts atrocities but justified actions. If they had lost a major war, it would be the other way around.

So yes, he should stand trial or any others who were deemed to have perpetrated such war crimes.

[Saint Marcus]

Obviously the reason why the US will never sign the Hague's War Crimes legislation - Kissinger would be 1st out the door, followed by hundreds of other former or current US officials...

How I wish.

Sadly, it's not retro-active.

[Adam Smith]

The Chilean judge prosecuting Augusto Pinochet for crimes committed during his 17-year dictatorship, is seeking to extradite Henry Kissinger, the former US Secretary of State, to Chile.

Any application for his extradition, however, would increase the embarrassment and pressure on Mr Kissinger, who last year quit France in a hurry rather than submit to a summons to appear before A judge Roger Le Loire, who was looking into the disappearance of five French citizens in Chile during the Pinochet years.

Such action would mirror the move by the Spanish judge, Baltasar Garzón, which led to the arrest of Gen Pinochet in London in September 1998.

Let me see if I have this straight.
Suppose we stipulate that the US was behind the coup that brought Pinochet to power.
And suppose, just for the sake of argument, that Kissinger could be identified with reasonable certainty as the person who "ordered" such a coup.
Why, exactly, are judges seeking to extradite Kissenger, instead of Pinochet, in connection with actions taken by Pinochet's regieme?? Such an extradition request would never stand up in a US court (or in the UK either, I would bet). If these are the types of actions we can expect under the Human Rights Court, then the US is perfectly right to not sign the treaty. The standards of this court do not meet those of the US legal system, much as you Euros are fond of telling us about US death penalty cases.

[SlowwHand]

Kissinger did a great job. Too bad he wasn't born in the U.S. . I might have voted for him.

[Jack the Bodiless]

In this instance, he's wanted as a witness.

But plenty of people would like to have a very long chat with Mr Kissinger.

Kissinger Watch

(...some of the linked articles are, erm, emotionally intense...)

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by Sikander
The difference between you and Kissinger Mobius, is that I trust Kissinger. If you had a tiny percentage of the power Kissinger had you would be covered in a good deal more blood than he.

That's because you're American and he murdered people in your 'interests'...

Nice...

As for the power bit, how the hell can you presume to know what I would do if I had that kind of power - I'm intrigued, what do you think I would do???

Personally I find it quite insulting that you think I would turn into some kind of genocidal mass murderer...

I guess I could see a scenario where all the greedy capitalist and corrupt scum of the World started an uprising against my enlightened and humanitarian policies cutting into their parasitic profits - but that would only be in self defence...

Your morals on the other hand indicate that you are quite happy about someone being responsible for the deaths of millions of innocent people for your own selfish ill-gotten gains. You even trust him!

[DanS]

I think he can submit an affidavit or be deposed in this matter. It's way too much to ask for an extradition. Of course, this is something he can flout.

[TCO]

What a joke! This is hilarious. Listening to this kind of silliness from Mobius and the like makes the case for not joining the Kangaroo Court. Roland really needs to train you guys to lay low...

[DinoDoc]

Was Kissinger out of toilet paper? Was that the reason for the extradition order?

[chequita guevara]

Adam Smith, Kisinger long ago admitted his culpability in the Chilean coup. Furthermore, there is masive amounts of documentary evidence to back it up. "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people."

However, International law does not apply to the US or its agents, so Kissinger has nothing to worry about . . . unless Nader gets elected, which won't happen.

[Chris 62]

I thought they wanted kissy for war crimes in Vietnam?

That's what they usually say.

Oh, Moby, Cali says you think Martin Luther King was "misinformed", care to comment on that?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Chris 62
Oh, Moby, Cali says you think Martin Luther King was "misinformed", care to comment on that?

It was about MLK's assertion that anti-Zionists are anti-semetic.