OH HAPPY DAY--WAR CRIMES TRIAL TO BEGIN

War Crimes trials begin, per Salon (subscription required)

....lawyers who represent detainees at Guantánamo Bay have other ideas. In a message just sent to reporters, they say they intend to file war crimes charges against Rumsfeld next week in Germany, arguing that his departure from the Department of Defense means that he's no longer entitled to immunity from prosecution.

It won't be the first time lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights have tried to persuade German authorities to prosecute Rumsfeld for war crimes. They tried in 2004 -- the subject then was Abu Ghraib -- but German officials declined to pursue the matter because, they said, the United States was investigating on its own. Still, it's clear that Rumsfeld took the prospect of prosecution at least a little bit seriously at the time. Before German prosecutors announced they wouldn't be taking up the case, Rumsfeld said he'd have to think twice about whether he could take the risk of traveling to Germany for a meeting there.

CCR lawyers say that, under Rumsfeld's direction, the Department of Defense has "adopted the practices of torture and indefinite detention" that they're challenging in a number of other cases.

Chicago Reader has a verbatum quote. (Hat tip: Maxed Out Mama)

EVEN BETTER NEWS: Impeachment Trials to begin (per Malkin). The Democrats will rue the day if these people have their way. My feeling is that when you actually examine the election, the hard left has been rebuked, and rebuked big time. The Democrat leadership is Hard Left but the elected representatives are clearly Center Right, with the clear exception of the members of the Congressional Black Caucus.