Bush, Cheney and Certain Other Members of His Adiministration are War Criminals
If recent revelations that Bush knew and approved of Cheney, certain cabinet members, and other high level officials discussing in detail specific interrogation methods aka torture to be used on detainees isn't enough to have the whole lot impeached then this should put the icing on that crime cake.
Warren Strobel at McClatchy news reported: "The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account.
"The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who's now retired, came in a new report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practices.
" 'After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes,' Taguba wrote.
'The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.'
"Taguba, whose 2004 investigation documented chilling abuses at Abu Ghraib, is thought to be the most senior official to have accused the administration of war crimes. 'The commander in chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture,' he wrote."
And from the NYTimes today: "When he speaks publicly, Lt. Cmdr. William C. Kuebler, a military lawyer for a Guantánamo detainee, is careful to say his remarks do not reflect the views of the Pentagon.
"As if anybody would make that mistake.
" 'The Bush administration’s war crimes system “is designed to get criminal convictions” with “no real evidence,' Commander Kuebler says. Or he lets fly that military prosecutors “launder evidence derived from torture.”
“ 'You put the whole package together and it stinks,' he said in an interview.
"When President Bush announced plans for military commission trials in 2001, critics said military defense lawyers would not put up much of a fight on behalf of men labeled terrorists. 'They wanted us to just be good little boys,' one of the lawyers, Maj. Michael D. Mori of the Marines, once told an interviewer.
"Lt. Cmdr. Charles D. Swift, who has since retired from the military, helped take the case of Salim Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, to the Supreme Court. The ruling in 2006 invalidated the Bush administration’s first military commission system.
“ 'We were concerned,' Professor Swift said, 'that fighting would serve to validate the system.' The strategy to avoid that, he said, was: 'Attack the system.'
"Outsiders to the culture of military lawyers sometimes find their willingness to challenge their commanders’ system surprising. John D. Altenburg Jr., a retired major general who headed the Office of Military Commissions at the Pentagon until 2006, said administration planners of the commissions may have misunderstood military lawyers. They may have been influenced, he said, by old movies that showed quick military trials and perfunctory defense presentations. “I can just imagine,” he said, “a bunch of guys sitting around and saying, ‘Hey, I know, we can do military trials because the defense lawyers will all roll over.’ ”
The Bushite administration defies the Constitution, the Congress, and the Supreme Court, flying the finger at them, and the arrogant, invertebrate Wussacrat leaders in Congress fail to uphold their oath by not impeaching Bush, Cheney et al. They are as complicit as this criminal administration by not defending the Constitution and upholding the rights of the American people by refusing to initiatiate the impeachment process.
Too bad we don't have the likes of courageous and honorable Sam Earvin, Barbara Jordan and Elizabeth Holtzman in Congress anymore.
Warren Strobel at McClatchy news reported: "The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account.
"The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who's now retired, came in a new report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practices.
" 'After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes,' Taguba wrote.
'The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.'
"Taguba, whose 2004 investigation documented chilling abuses at Abu Ghraib, is thought to be the most senior official to have accused the administration of war crimes. 'The commander in chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture,' he wrote."
And from the NYTimes today: "When he speaks publicly, Lt. Cmdr. William C. Kuebler, a military lawyer for a Guantánamo detainee, is careful to say his remarks do not reflect the views of the Pentagon.
"As if anybody would make that mistake.
" 'The Bush administration’s war crimes system “is designed to get criminal convictions” with “no real evidence,' Commander Kuebler says. Or he lets fly that military prosecutors “launder evidence derived from torture.”
“ 'You put the whole package together and it stinks,' he said in an interview.
"When President Bush announced plans for military commission trials in 2001, critics said military defense lawyers would not put up much of a fight on behalf of men labeled terrorists. 'They wanted us to just be good little boys,' one of the lawyers, Maj. Michael D. Mori of the Marines, once told an interviewer.
"Lt. Cmdr. Charles D. Swift, who has since retired from the military, helped take the case of Salim Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, to the Supreme Court. The ruling in 2006 invalidated the Bush administration’s first military commission system.
“ 'We were concerned,' Professor Swift said, 'that fighting would serve to validate the system.' The strategy to avoid that, he said, was: 'Attack the system.'
"Outsiders to the culture of military lawyers sometimes find their willingness to challenge their commanders’ system surprising. John D. Altenburg Jr., a retired major general who headed the Office of Military Commissions at the Pentagon until 2006, said administration planners of the commissions may have misunderstood military lawyers. They may have been influenced, he said, by old movies that showed quick military trials and perfunctory defense presentations. “I can just imagine,” he said, “a bunch of guys sitting around and saying, ‘Hey, I know, we can do military trials because the defense lawyers will all roll over.’ ”
The Bushite administration defies the Constitution, the Congress, and the Supreme Court, flying the finger at them, and the arrogant, invertebrate Wussacrat leaders in Congress fail to uphold their oath by not impeaching Bush, Cheney et al. They are as complicit as this criminal administration by not defending the Constitution and upholding the rights of the American people by refusing to initiatiate the impeachment process.
Too bad we don't have the likes of courageous and honorable Sam Earvin, Barbara Jordan and Elizabeth Holtzman in Congress anymore.
Posted by Kaz at 6/19/2008 4:15 PM 
Categories: Opinion, Bush, Global Engagement, Impeachment, Bushites
Categories: Opinion, Bush, Global Engagement, Impeachment, Bushites
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