July 11, 2006

Iraq to ask UN to end US immunity

Iraq will ask the United Nations to end immunity for US troops, the government said on Monday, as the US military named five soldiers charged in a rape-murder case that has outraged Iraqis.

In an interview a week after Prime Minister al-Maliki demanded a review of foreign troops' immunity, Human Rights Minister Wigdan Michael said work on it was now under way and a request could be ready by next month to go to the UN Security Council.

"We're very serious about this," she said, adding a lack of enforcement of US military law in the past had encouraged soldiers to commit crimes against Iraqi civilians.

Asked to respond to Michael's remarks, White House spokesman Tony Snow dismissed that as a "hypothetical game."
A "game"???? Yeah, tell that to the Iraqi parents whose children were tortured and killed.


Major dork Tony Snow has fun in war-torn Iraq.

Jerk-off. Oh, btw, a Nuremberg chief prosecutor says there is a case for trying Bush for the 'supreme crime against humanity, an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation' (thx, BuzzFlash).
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