Double Standard


Double Standard

 

From startribune.com,  Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 2, 2005

U.S. OKs sending Sudanese to world court

The latest: The United States is still firmly opposed to the International Criminal Court despite the Bush administration's acquiescence to ICC prosecution of war crime suspects in Sudan, the State Department said Friday….

'Extraordinary circumstances': Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice suggested that a show of U.S. flexibility in the deliberations was necessary because of the "extraordinary circumstance" posed by the continuing humanitarian nightmare in Sudan.

"There are clearly crimes against humanity being committed in Sudan, and there are people who have to be held accountable for those crimes," Rice said.

Given the high priority the United States has given to holding Sudanese war criminals accountable, a veto would have caused embarrassment to the administration….

Bush's opposition: During the election campaign last year, President Bush defended U.S. opposition to the ICC. If the United States were to join, he said, "unaccountable judges and prosecutors" could target U.S. military personnel and diplomats.

"I am against the international court," Bush said….

Reported by Associated Press

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