Carsten Kofoed: The profligate Danish Prime Minister

The profligate Danish Prime Minister

By Carsten Kofoed, Free Iraq Blog of Denmark, January 28, 2007

Danish National Television (DR) is untrustworthy and an inquiry into the TV-station is needed, said Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen (following the Danish documentary “The Secret War”, shown on DR in December 2006 and establishing, among other things, that Danish soldiers in Afghanistan in 2002, contrary to claims of the Danish government, captured 31 Afghans and handed them over to the Americans, knowing that the Americans did not respect the Geneva Conventions; the 31 Afghans were subsequently tortured, translator’s note), the same person, who on March 21, 2003, declared: “Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. This is not something that we just believe. We know it.”

More than 665,000 Iraqis and six Danes have died as a result of Fogh Rasmussen’s criminal lie and war which the “factual” Prime Minister does not want examined. How dares this Fogh Rasmussen, who has so much blood on his hands, to accuse others of lying!

Fogh Ramussen’s attack on DR is both political, coordinated and diversion from the substance: Denmark’s involvement in torture.

However, that Denmark shares the responsibility for torture is not something new. The revelation of the systematic and extensive US torture in Iraq had no consequences. Denmark is still in Iraq and therefore responsible for all the crimes of the occupying power, including the torture, which is continuing because it is the way an occupying power behaves when the occupied people does not want what the occupiers want.

Fogh Rasmussen’s government is involved in torture as long as Denmark is an occupying power.

Sent as a comment (150 words maximum) to the Danish press on January 28, 2007. Published in the Danish daily Nyhedsavisen on January 29, 2007.