Domestic Policy Proposal Concerning the Prosecution of War Criminals
January 25, 2006
by Russell Cole
Perhaps, I could provide a suggested augmentation to American Empire's policies concerning the ongoing occupation in Iraq. I would suggest that Americans, including the flip-flop Democrats, who have assumed more contorted positions than a French Canadian Circus performer, insist on the prosecution of American leaders who have committed war crimes, following the 9/11 attacks and during the two wars Empire is currently losing in Asia.
Reparations need to be made to the Iraqi people. However, the extent of the reparations necessary to compensate the Iraqis cannot be determined until the full extent of American crimes against humanity has been disclosed. I think that all of the cancer needs to be extracted from the various political organs of this country so to provide at least some assurance that America does not relapse into this current state of pathology.
Arguments could quite easily be made that every person in both Afghanistan and Iraq, who has been processed through these various clandestine intelligence-extraction-S&M-chambers - parenthetically, I had a disturbing erotic dream about being ?interrogated' last night - and subjected to any form ill-treatment, constitutes a violation of the Geneva Convention. Subsequently, various agency leaders who sanction or who ever were cognizant of the these abuses should be tried as war criminals.
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The Pentagon's claim that these victims of American torture are not protected by the scope of the Geneva Convention is absolute absurdity. It is like saying that an American soldier is not protected by the Geneva Convention because he or she fails to belong to a nation-state, since America fails to have a credible form of polity, due to the fact that there is strife and conflict in American civil society concerning the legitimacy of the Bush Regime.
Furthermore, let us not underestimate the extent of America's culpability when it comes to civilian deaths. I find it somewhat ironic that America is now using chemical weapons against the Iraqi population. Mind you, "chemical weapon" is the only thing to call this odious gas that was used to force out any inhabitants of structures providing living quarters for Iraqis, during some American military operations. Specifically, I am referring to the deployment of White Phosphorus. The fact that this gas is not intended to kill, but, nevertheless, leaves a nasty third degree burn, is entirely irrelevant; especially if that burn leads to infection and so on.
How does this sound: the people who die from the injuries of this American used chemical weapon are, indeed, the victims of increased levels of toxicity in their bodies, caused from the ensuing bacterial pathogens that infect the open wounds and emit toxins into the bodies of the victims of American chemical weapons? This, all of it together, is not only a terrible mess, it is an opportunity to gut out all of the diseased cells in America's various agencies serving as extensions of executive authority.
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Russell Cole [send him email] is a contributing author to the Populist Party of America, and is the coordinator for the Populist Party's Midwest Alliance, the Midwest Populist Party. Read more from Russell Cole at the Midwest Populist Party blog.
