ABC News: Rumsfeld considers war crime prosecution risk

Concern that US leaders and military personnel risk prosecution in Germany for alleged war crimes has become a factor in deciding whether US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will attend an international security conference in Munich, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.

Surely somebody as steadfast in their own righteousness as Rumsfeld has nothing to fear from a bunch of uppity krauts?

The thought that the scariest man on the planet is himself too frightened to get on a plane to Germany is cockle-warming indeed.

UPDATE: Maybe, when Donald says “I ain’t getting on no plane foo’”, someone could surrepticiously sedate him and then drag him aboard. Especially now he’s revived his hankering for bunker-buster “burrowing” nuclear weapons. For Christ’s sake, where does he get his ideas from? A queasy mix of reading to much Judge Dredd: The Apocalypse War and not enough Freud, methinks.