The paperwork can kill you. The irrepressible Chris FLoyd, sterling columnist for The Moscow Times, looks askance at Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's pre-approved death certificates for Iraqi civilians a year before we officially launched the invasion. And from than angle the whole thing appears to be a war crime.
The paper trail this process creates may would provide a wonderful exhibit in the the future war crimes prosecution of Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney and Powell that would surely come about in any just society.
But since ours no longer is one, what with US Patriot Act and its anticipated sequel, USPA2, such an event is a dim possibility.
The Floyd piece deals with the policy of haivng Rumsfeld sign of in advance of any bombing missions in Iraq in which at least 30 civilians wee expected to be killed in the action.
Why 30, and not 29 or 31? Or 10, or 50? Does Rumsfeld consider less than 30 fall within the category of "petty cash?" Are 29 lives so trivial to him that dispensing with them can be left up the household help?
The paper trail this process creates may would provide a wonderful exhibit in the the future war crimes prosecution of Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney and Powell that would surely come about in any just society.
But since ours no longer is one, what with US Patriot Act and its anticipated sequel, USPA2, such an event is a dim possibility.
The Floyd piece deals with the policy of haivng Rumsfeld sign of in advance of any bombing missions in Iraq in which at least 30 civilians wee expected to be killed in the action.
Why 30, and not 29 or 31? Or 10, or 50? Does Rumsfeld consider less than 30 fall within the category of "petty cash?" Are 29 lives so trivial to him that dispensing with them can be left up the household help?
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