US Troops subject to World Court?

This is what obama wants now...



Barack Obama may subject US troops to International Criminal Court




They are feeling good just now at The Hague, as the
judges and pen-pushers of the International Criminal Court (ICC)
adjourn to smart restaurants to celebrate the latest gesture-politics
flexing of their muscles by issuing an arrest warrant for Omar al
Bashir, the President of Sudan. They are feeling less good in Darfur,
from which 10 international aid agencies were expelled in retaliation
within four hours of the ICC initiative, cutting food supplies and
closing clinics. One man's ego trip is another man's starvation.

But the people who should be feeling really nervous
about this development are the citizens of the United States and more
especially their armed forces. The signs are that the grandstanding
Barack Obama is preparing to subject the United States to the
jurisdiction of the ICC. In May, 2002 President Bush withdrew the
United States from the Rome Statute which established the ICC. With
America heading into global conflict, he had no wish to see US troops
arraigned for alleged war crimes before a kangaroo court.

That was a wise decision and probably required in
terms of the US Constitution. Already, however, the Obama
administration is sending out very different messages. America helped
defeat a proposal that the warrant for Bashir should be suspended for
12 months - which would have been a welcome respite for the soup
kitchens of Darfur. This is a policy change of considerable
significance.

Nor is it the only straw in the wind. Last month US
Ambassador Susan Rice, in a closed meeting of the Security Council,
supported the ICC, saying it "looks to become an important and credible
instrument for trying to hold accountable the senior leadership
responsible for atrocities committed in the Congo, Uganda and Darfur".
A week later Ben Chang, spokesman for National Security Advisor General
James Jones, took a similar line, telling the Washington Times: "We
support the ICC in its pursuit of those who've perpetrated war crimes."

The next logical step is for the United States to
sign up to the ICC. That would flatter Obama's ego as the conscience of
the world. It would also put US servicemen at the mercy of any
American-hating opportunists who might choose to arraign them on
trumped-up charges before an alien court whose judges are likely to be
ill-disposed towards America too.

In a joint analysis by David Scheffer (who helped
set up the ICC) and John Hutson (former US Navy Judge Advocate
General), the authors wrote: "If the United States were to join the
ICC, one would have to accept at least the theoretical possibility that
American citizens (particularly political and military leaders) could
be prosecuted before the ICC on charges of committing atrocity crimes."

So, vengeful Democrats could facilitate the
indictment of President George W Bush and all his senior commanders in
Iraq. American troops on active service have been shown in polls to
have little confidence in Barack Obama. His overtures to the ICC will
hardly reverse that tendency.


http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/03/06/barack_obama_may_subject_us_troops_to_international_criminal_court

This is total bullshit

another good reason for them all to stand down. fuck you Osama !!!!

A military coup becomes more of a possibility every day Maobama infects the Oval Office.