Same as in Iraq – where human rights violation against have increased tenfold.

Furthermore I strictly object to the fact, that we should judge the lifestyle of other cultures based on our own life style.

And again we learn how much american intervention changed things to the better. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by Geforce
much like the Dutch can understand German, but not the other way around. Or South Africans can understand Dutch easily, but we don’t understand them (unless it’s written).

Not really I can understand and read Dutch quite fine. Speaking is a problem though.

What I find more interesting is that the articles seem to be more and more badly researched.

Let me give you an example :

In the fighters overview in the text about EF the information about german wings to equipp with the EF is simply wrong.

JG 72 in Hopsten is no more. There will be a 16 planes flight Training Centre for the F-4F there until 2006, after that the airbase will close.

So I doubt we will see JG 72 reform at Hopsten.

Furthermore it is not said that some of the current Tornado wings will reequip with late batch EFs and become multirole wings. The first wing to do so is said to be the JBG 31 at Nörvenich. They might even change before JG 71 at Wittmund trades in the last F-4Fs in 2012.

First of all there has been no real communist countries in the world. We saw Stalinist countries, who called themselves communist.

Those countries did not fail because the west did lie about them, but because their leaders lied to the population. That is why the GDR fell apart. It had nothing to offer the population. You had a small cadre of elitist party cadre that enjoyed freedom and luxury to a level the normal popualtion could not even dream of reaching.

Sure in the west you do have poor, average and rich people. But at least everyone has the basic chance to change his socail status. (It does not work every time , but you can at least try)

China has come a long way from the dark days of the culture revolution. China is country with many faces. You have the large prospering cities in which the life style and personal freedom are comparable to western countries. You have the poor rural areas which are still very much left in the old age. In those areas the party has much more influence on the individuals live, then in the cities.

But compared to other countires in the region the former communist countries are not doing bad. Although China is still a long way from an open and free society. But freedom has to be earned and the chinese are earning it every day with every small step they make into that direction.

Nah, you just fear to be held responsible for your war crimes. 😀

But it is always right to blame it on the imperialistic US pigs.

Btw let me add that no charges were filed against Saddam until now. :rolleyes: :confused:

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BRUSSELS – US Allied Forces Commander, General Tommy Franks, and a second, unnamed party, could face trial in Belgium for war crimes under the country’s amended genocide law after four Belgian doctors lodged a complaint in Brussels.
The four men, two of whom are still in Baghdad, work for the Belgian association Medicine for the Third World and were witnesses to the Allied invasion of the country.

Several events have already been cited by the doctors’ lawyer, Jan Fermon, including an ambulance under fire from US troops, the bombing of a market, an attack on a civilian bus, random excecutions and inaction in the face of hospital pillaging.

This will be the first time Belgium’s law of universal competence will be tested since its politico-diplomatic cleanup last month.

The so-called genocide law had given courts in Belgium universal jurisdiction to try cases of genocide, war crimes and human rights violations.

Several clauses were amended so as to avoid the law being used for political complaints in the current climate. It is feared by opponents to the changes however that the law is now left bereft of its previous clout.

The doctors’ case is thought to be within the remit of the new law because it is filed on behalf of Iraqi doctors by their Belgian colleagues.

However, the complaint will still have to be vetted by the Belgian government and the country’s highest court, the Court of Cassation, before it can go ahead.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell labelled the Belgian legislation a “serious problem” after joining **** Cheney and George Bush Senior on a list of suspects in a lawsuit pertaining to alleged crimes committed during the last Gulf War.

General Franks is currently holding residence in one of Saddam Hussein’s former palaces in the Iraqi capital – a symbolic gesture heralding the close of the Iraqi conflict

-> that is gonna be interesting.

And obviously you can only use aluminium pipes only for exactly that purpose.

The company is prosecuted because they sold material that can be used for that purpose, but also for many others.

And also it is not on topic, I don´t care about such things anymore. The US is clearly trying to force all countries to follow their leadership. It is time to show them, that we don´t care anymore.