Nevertheless, he told me, "we need closure," which, for him, means that whoever was responsible has to answer for their conduct — that someone be held accountable.
From the strategic folly, to the use of torture, the destruction of civilian life, the profiteering, the political miscalculation -- the years of ineptitude need to be exposed and explained, and those responsible made to answer.
The French foreign minister, Alain Juppé, said: "The massacre in Homs is a crime against humanity, and those responsible will have to answer for it".
The current fuss reached the boiling point on March 31st, when, after the body of Terri Schiavo was allowed to expire, DeLay — in a prepared statement, not an off-the-cuff remark — warned ominously, "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior, but not today".
She declined to talk other than to say someone "more responsible" would have to answer, and hung up.
To set the scene of Sen. Lautenberg's remarks below, this was not long after Tom DeLay, referring to the decision of the courts in the Terry Schiavo case, made the statement: "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior".
In reaction to the decision made in the Terri Schiavo case a few weeks earlier, for example, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay had said of the judges involved: "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior".
"We want all those who committed crimes to be held responsible; we want them to answer before our institutions," Mr. Djindjic said after meeting Secretary of State Colin L. Powell in Washington.
"So strike a blow for freedom, privacy and responsible government by refusing to answer every question but one: how many people live in your home?" The Better Business Bureau and Census Bureau have tried to spread the word about a fake e-mail message, purporting to be from the business group, that advises people to answer only that question.
Moreover, the human rights court condemned former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's decision to invoke state secrets during an Italian prosecutor's probe into Abu Omar's disappearance "in order to ensure that those responsible did not have to answer for their actions".
The person clinically responsible was either asked to answer on behalf of all the hospitals or distribute the questionnaires to relevant recipients.
