Kucinich blasts NATO and calls for military chiefs to be tried

[Aliangel]

WASHINGTON — A US lawmaker fiercely opposed to NATO's role in the Libya conflict called Tuesday for the alliance's military chiefs to be held to account under international law for the deaths of Libyan civilians.

"Otherwise we will have witnessed the triumph of a new international gangsterism," Democratic Representative Dennis Kucinich, a leading opponent in the US Congress to Washington's role in the fighting, said in a statement.

Kucinich said that NATO forces had flouted UN Security Council resolutions in acting as "the air force for the rebels, who could not have succeeded but for NATO's attacks" and had "illegally pursued regime change."

"NATO's top commanders may have acted under color of international law but they are not exempt from international law," he said, as rebels against Moamer Kadhafi captured the Libyan strongman's fortified Tripoli compound.

"If members of the Kadhafi regime are to be held accountable, NATO's top commanders must also be held accountable through the International Criminal Court for all civilian deaths resulting from bombing," said Kucinich.

NATO has insisted that its attacks are in keeping with UN resolutions passed this year which allow military action to protect civilians in Libya.

But UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed alarm at the number of civilian casualties in the conflict, including those inflicted in NATO air strikes.

And NATO's air attacks have drawn harsh criticism from members of the UN Security Council, including Russia, China, Brazil, India and South Africa, who say the action goes beyond UN resolutions on Libya.

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[HOLLYWOOD]

~$5 TRILLION of the Sweetest Crude Oil in the World under Libya

Wonderful Libyan Seaports for the DOD Africa Command (AFRICOM)

NATURAL GAS

WATER TABLES

 

[YumYum]

That is all fine and dandy, but I really wish that Kucinich would tell us all what Obama said to him on the little "flight" they took on Air Force One that caused him to change his mind about Obamacare?

 

[AGRP]

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[HOLLYWOOD]

That is all fine and dandy, but I really wish that Kucinich would tell us all what Obama said to him on the little "flight" they took on Air Force One that caused him to change his mind about Obamacare?

YEAH, that E-Ticket ride to Cleveland and it all changed. Betcha Kucinich is pissed that Obama screwed him royally on whatever promise he reneged upon.

It will be interesting with the economy on how the DEMS react next year to their party's regime.

 

[AGRP]

YEAH, that E-Ticket ride to Cleveland and it all changed. Betcha Kucinich is pissed that Obama screwed him royally on whatever promise he reneged upon.

It will be interesting with the economy on how the DEMS react next year to their party's regime.

Who says he got screwed? For all we know, he has among the nicest retirement packages known to man.

 

[Working Poor]

Who says he got screwed? For all we know, he has among the nicest retirement packages known to man.

for all we know his life may have been threatened

 

[YumYum]

for all we know his life may have been threatened

It makes you wonder if he was told he would be killed, or that the economy would completely crash, or that his 6' tall wife would leave him.

In any case, he sold out, and now he is supposed to move to Washington State if he wants to stay in congress. Cleveland don't love him anymore.

This is what happens to politicians who make compromises and go against their principles.

 

[Warrior_of_Freedom]

This is until Obama takes Kucinich back onto his plane for a little 1 on 1 waterboarding.

 

[Aratus]

i half wonder, can we coax him into a string of primaries? especially if he's serious about this,
given that redistricting will turn him into a lame duck. he potus ran before... if he's POed...

 

[raiha]

Good for Kucinich!

 

[flightlesskiwi]

It makes you wonder if he was told he would be killed, or that the economy would completely crash, or that his 6' tall wife would leave him.

In any case, he sold out, and now he is supposed to move to Washington State if he wants to stay in congress. Cleveland don't love him anymore.

This is what happens to politicians who make compromises and go against their principles.

this is what SHOULD happen, but doesn't often pan out.

 

[MJU1983]

Good for Kucinich!

Indeed.

 

[CaptainAmerica]

Kucinich said America needed President Barack Obama “to be FDR.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/dennis-kucinich-we-need-obama-to-be-fdr/

 

[Teaser Rate]

How does that lunatic still have a job? Hopefully he'll be out of the Congress after the next election due to redistricting. He can then go back to chasing UFOs and let the grownups do the governing.

 

[Cutlerzzz]

Americans tried in international court? Violating international law? Why doesn't Kucinich worry about US law instead?

 

[jmdrake]

How does that lunatic still have a job? Hopefully he'll be out of the Congress after the next election due to redistricting. He can then go back to chasing UFOs and let the grownups do the governing.

Yeah. That way Obama can get a solid democrat who will always agree with him. For the record DK never said he saw "aliens", just that he saw and something in the sky he couldn't identify. About a month after that story broke there were mass UFO sightings in Texas that the government first denied but then explained away as "secret military aircraft". Maybe DK saw one of those too.

Anyway, DK should be calling for Obama to be tried for treason for giving aid and comfort to Al Qaeda in Libya.