Legal documents that will be filed in Germany next week name some pretty prominent American politicians - former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is among them, so is George Tenet, and US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

It seems that some civilized countries have laws that allow them to deal with “special interrogation plan[s]” like those personally approved by Rumsfeld.

Rummy is apparently upset over the whole thing, US officials are once again muttering about consequences, and according to Aljazeera, Rumsfeld has canceled a trip to Germany over it all — I guess getting picked up at the airport and doing the “I don’t have diplomatic immunity anymore, oh woe is me” perp walk rubs him the wrong way.

Unfortunately the chances of any of these cases coming to trial is less than -0-, unless the German government has bigger balls than I think it does the US will start throwing its weight around a little bit and scare them into finding another excuse not to hear legal arguments regarding war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

It’s also unfortunate that none of the crowd mentioned either above or in the two articles linked have the balls to face charges like this - like most others of their ilk they are quite content to hide within their own country and safely play “we didn’t noth’en wrong”… with the full and certain knowledge that civilized countries like Germany do not practice extraordinary rendition, and even if they did, they would never dare touch US soil.