The White House made clear yesterday that they oppose any independent investigation of the recent US attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, and the Pentagon seems to be doubling down, ensuring that there’s not much evidence left for any independent investigators when they get through.
Doctors Without Borders today reported they were informed that the US smashed into the wreckage of the hospital with a tank, forcing their way in and destroying potential evidence that would be used in a war crimes investigation.
US officials claimed that the tank was “carrying investigators” from the official military inquiry into the matter, though they likely could’ve gotten into the hospital, closed after the attack, without using a tank if they’d simply asked Doctors Without Borders to let them in.
The latest incident emerged amid reports that the Pentagon not only knew the facility was a protected hospital when they ordered it attacked, but that military analysts are continuing to argue that the attack was “justified” based on speculation a Pakistani spy may have been within.
At long last, will this be the incident that turns world governments against the US?
Never underestimate the love of unanswerable power. The way it works is to identify with the bully for protection. I'd prefer to see it break down, but not sure what it would take. Too much over-reaching perhaps – this is just a small taste of it –
Someone in the pathetic UN needs to bring Obama up on war crimes. This man is a monster.
Or can the Nobel committee strip him of his prize? I realize Kissinger still has his. Maybe run a twofer there.
Now just imagine the fake outrage and gnashing of teeth if Russia were alleged to have done anything even close to this. Instead the silence is deafening. By the way I wonder when Michael Kenny will condemn this? I know, fat chance. He only likes to rant on about fake annexations and invasions by Russia. Hypocritical scumbags.
Nice and subtle. Crimes piling up on crimes to cover up for crimes.
Too bad there is no one willing to stand up to the
school yard bully.
Why do these people hat on Putin? They must be projecting 24/7.
Justified?!?!? If there was someone inside that they wanted, they could have gone in taken him. I'm sure DWB would have complained but no one most likely would have been killed and the building most likely would not have been destroyed. You wouldn't burn down your own house to get rid of one little mouse. You wouldn't kill your neighbor because you don't like the way he mows his grass. You don't bomb hospitals…period.
Bombing a hospital is never justifiable. To even attempt to justify this action is abominable. American exceptionalism is not just a term thrown around at pressers and in commentary – it has become real and it's pure savagery.
"Justified?!?!? If there was someone inside that they wanted, they could have gone in taken him."
Exactly. This is impossibly lame. One officer with one sidearm (or without) could have strolled through the hospital till he found(?) the Pakistani intelligence officer(?). The Afghans had previously — months or years before — done the "armed intrusion" bit, and found nothing. You're gonna tell me that all those super-killer spec ops guys couldn't have done the same (and busted things up "real horror show" in the American tradition)? Hogwash!
This is just the same old same old after the fact kabuki. "You want an excuse? You want a justification? Come over here. Here's my bag of justifications. Reach in and pull one out at random. There you go. Happy now? Suck on that."
The US war party duopoly — which is to say the Neocons — do what they want. Accountability? What's that? (So f*ck off!)
[That said, war crimes — no statute of limitations — have been committed by most of the US political class, and all it would take is one president willing to sic the DoJ on them, and they could all go to jail, and the US could become at last a nation with uniform application — which is to say the powerful included — of the rule of law across the entire spectrum of class and wealth and power.]
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Certainly unintentional /s.
Putin must be in deep trouble! Or at least, Mr Ditz seems to think so. Putin must be allowed to win so that he can rid the world of Islamic terorists, American war criminals, Ukrainian neo-nazis, EU socialists and so on and so forth.
Hey, look! There's a guy outside your house, shooting out your porch lights! Oh, my god! It's Vladimir Putin! My God, he's EVERYWHERE, and he's ALWAYS IN TROUBLE!
Doctors Without Borders must have other hospitals in the Afghan war zones, key question is, have they stopped treating the Taliban wounded? For —
(1) A report states that the European doctors vacated the hospital just before the attack.
(2) Don't recall a doctor being injured in the attack.
(3) Two weeks previous government troops raided the hospital serving notice that the hospital must stop treating the Afghan wounded.
For the hospital's excuse that the danger is too high to reopen, this goes contrary to all that Doctors Without Borders has endured in the past.
It was reported that several medical personnel were killed – nurses or doctors, does it really matter? But when you destroy the evidence I guess your lack of recall serves the purpose of supporting the story of doctors abandoning patients, which is what you are accusing them of doing. You are basically saying that they were cowards, and I do not recall that ever being a justifiable conclusion about this war crime. It's a war crime, so stop trying to demonize the victims.
It took almost 70 years to charge someone for the collective punishment massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane in France. However, driving a tank, albeit containing investigators, over the crime scene is not a good start to any investigation.
This is what happens to any country when over time its ruling circles get saturated by people of really low quality. Neocons are not just US phenomena, unfortunately. Their brotherhood now reaches into many ruling circles in Europe, Canada, Australia and few other places where they have installed their creed. Look at the way Georgia has behaved, or the newly installed Ukrainian government. They all talk and walk alike, as if cloned.
Their distinguishing characteristics is the belief in raw power, superiority grounded in belief that they are the chosen/exceptional, looking at all others as inferior — be that other countries, or other people who do not agree with wrapped up into grandiose ideology, personal stupidity and naked ambition, characterized by vulgarity, crassness, lack of concern for others, lack of empathy and utter absence of conscience. But they are united, they support each other, they bring on board more of the same. But the most dangerous aspect of their long-term presence in all levers of power is — what appears — the restructuring all intelligence agencies through privatizing schemes, so that CIA is nothing but a shell, while people — who are NOT public servants working for their country — are the employees loyal to their corporate interests. And the corporations are in turn, loyal to the Neocons in power. Even more damaging can be the advancements in military ranks of such Neocon-picked people. Look at how easily Petraeus got away with his violations. He and Hilary and other neocons, behave like the rules are for little people. Look at the crop of generals like Clark and Breedlove. Their arrogance that betrays bad manners and the firm belief in their superiority — no matter what messes they create.
"…behave like the rules are for little people."
Oh, that's the way they designed the system…It's working perfectly I would say.
Maybe a movie can be made to make heroes out of the barbarians who destroyed the hospital, and get the people in the crowd to feel a thrill of pride in our brave killers who answered the ticking time bomb not with a mushroom cloud, but with traditional Israeli tactics used on UN compounds sheltering refugees. In our case, the threshold for destruction was much lower, since the hospital is nowhere near our precious Homeland and there were no rockets issuing forth from it. But hey, now the precedent is set: bomb at will and since you are chosen by God to be the alpha civilization, the mob will love you. Hail Caesar! (it really does not matter which party he is said to come from, or whether he backs the blue or green charioteers – he is the deified POTUS and he can do no wrong for he is the law).
Borat Obammie is a war criminal and muderer. Peace prize, my @ss.