The Null Device

EU exempts US from ICC

The International Criminal Court is strangled at birth; the EU's member states will exempt Americans from war crimes prosecution. (Note that this doesn't apply to US lackeys, so British and Australian troops fighting Bush's wars can still be tried. Which is more incentive for Australia to sign a bilateral mutual-exemption treaty with the US.) I wonder how much this has to do with veterans of Central American interventions rising to power in the US.
But German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said the EU compromise was signficant. ``The Milosevices and Pinochets of tomorrow will be brought to justice,'' he told reporters.

Though the future Kissingers and Calleys can breathe easily, knowing that their God-given liberty is not under threat. It seems that American citizenship is the salient criterion there.

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Posted by: Ben http://rocknerd.org Thu Oct 3 11:27:04 2002

Kissinger should still avoid Belgium... and France, where there's a warrant out for him as a witness (relating to Chile, I think).