5/14/2003

“In the spring of [May 14] 2003, [Central Command leader] General [Tommy] Franks was named in a lawsuit brought before a Belgian court for his role in the Iraq war. The Belgian parliament had passed a law in the 1990s giving their nation’s courts the jurisdiction to try war crimes, genocide, and other crimes against humanity wherever they were committed in the world.”

 – Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 596