John Kerry: More Work to Bring War Criminals to Justice

[unhappycamper]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johnkerry/war-crimes-rewards-program_b_3007049.html?utm_hp_ref=world

More Work to Bring War Criminals to Justice
John Kerry
U.S. Secretary of State
Posted: 04/03/2013 11:28 am

Imagine for a moment that you are a child growing up in central Africa. Instead of sleeping at home with your family each night, you take shelter with dozens of other children. You hope you'll find safety in numbers. You pray that you will not be pulled out of your bed and abducted in the night by an armed militia -- conscripted into a life of violence, forced to brutalize your own family members, used as a sex slave, condemned to a life on the run from the authorities.

It's a living nightmare -- but thanks in part to last year's Kony video about the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), it's a reality that millions of Americans now know that for almost twenty years has tormented and terrorized children across Uganda, the DRC, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan.

It has to stop.

Last April at this exact time, I came to the Huffington Post and I talked directly with you about some common sense steps we could take to help end the horror of thugs like Kony. I was chairing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and introducing new legislation which I asked you to help pass into law. You responded -- we mobilized the grassroots -- Congress moved quickly -- and the very last piece of legislation I passed as a Senator was the bill we'd talked about right here. As I was awaiting confirmation to become Secretary of State, the bill came to President Obama's desk and he signed it into law.



unhappycamper comment: Dear Mr. Secretary:

We have war criminals in the United States that should also go on your list. I'm thinking of dubya and darth for starters.

If necessary I can provide other names or you could read about what happened in the United States 2002 and 2003. (Fieth, Wolfowitz, Pearle, Rice, and the rest of the neocons....)

[JoeBlowToo]

1. Bush and Cheney should be at the top of that list...(as you mentioned)

It is so fucking hypocritical that the U.S. can go after the small fry to feel holier than thou without ever looking into the crimes committed by the Bush junta.

[leveymg]

2. See, Kerry Comm. '89 report on Bush, Sr., Contras and the Saudis. Continue your work, PLEASE.

Thank you Sen. Kerry and Bob Parry/Brian Barger. Thanks also for their investigations of BCCI and the Bush-CIA-Saudi connection to covert slush funds, bank looting, and the Pakistani nuclear program and paramilitary operations. One of the finest reports ever produced, but also largely ignored by the corporate media.

America is fortunate to have them.