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arethuza on June 12, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Germans accuse U.S. of Stasi tactics before Obama ...

Countries have all kinds of crazy plans in place in case crazy things happen.

e.g. The UK had plans involving "shooting guards at American nuclear weapon stores in England if they proved uncooperative"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/in-the-eve...

digitalengineer on June 12, 2013 [–]

Correct. But the International Tribunal isn't exactly 'a crazy thing*. Would it be 'crazy' to uphold (Coalition) troops to the same standard as 'the bad guys'?

arethuza on June 12, 2013 | [–]

Personally, I think it is a great thing (I'd ship a certain former Prime Minister off to it) - but I'm not American.

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