Civil rights groups in Germany filed a lawsuit against outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld charging him with war crimes for the alleged abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons.  This complaint is on behalf of 11 Iraqi citizens who were held at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and one detainee at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba.  The allegations conclude that the detainees were victims of beatings, sleep and food deprivation, hooding, and sexual abuse.

Is Rumsfeld guilty of these crimes?  Probably so.  He was the head of the nations defense, and chances are he knew these sorts of things were going on at out oversees prisons.  Should he go to jail in Germany over this?  I think not.  The United States isn't stupid enough to hand over Donald Rumsfeld to the Germans.  If they want to try him in court bad enough, I say let them come over here and take him.

Rumsfeld will never see a day in German prison for this because he doesn't deserve to be in prison over there.  He deserves to be tried in America like all other American criminals.  Once again, this will never happen due to the fact that the president and other ranking Republicans will never let this happen.  The only way this would happen is if the Democrats bring impeachment proceedings against the president on the grounds of war crimes.  Democrats say this is not in their agenda, but lets just wait and see what happens when the president decides to veto every bit of legislation that comes out of Congress starting in January.