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The US will not prosecute Bush
John McQuaid
London Guardian
Sunday, July 20, 2008
The evidence is mounting that top US officials – including President George Bush, vice-president Dick Cheney and former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld – committed war crimes by authorising the use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” – ie torture. The war crimes drumbeat has accelerated with the recent release of two books: New Yorker writer Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side and Philippe Sands’s Torture Team, which document the executive decision-making that led the US to set aside not just the Geneva Conventions, but a tradition of respect for the human rights of enemy prisoners that dates to back to George Washington’s prohibition on harming POWs.
Current and former Bush officials are now scrambling to avoid the opprobrium – not to mention the risk of prison time – that would result from criminal prosecution. This week, Capitol Hill was treated to the spectacle of Sands and Douglas Feith, a former Rumsfeld protege who was an architect of the Iraq invasion, testifying side by side before a House subcommittee. In an earlier interview with Sands, Feith claimed to be “really a player” in the engineering of legal workarounds to the Geneva Conventions at Guantánamo. Before the committee, Feith declared his unerring support for Geneva.
The stream of commentary on this topic is waxing as we near the end of the Bush presidency. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof went his fellow pundits one better, suggesting that what the US needs is a South Africa-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission to sort through not just the legal transgressions of the past eight years, but the political manipulations as well.
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Hang on a moment. There is no way that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld or the second- and third-tier enablers of torture – the Feiths and John Yoos – will be prosecuted for war crimes in the United States.
The obstacle to prosecutions is the absence of a national consensus on the specific issue of torture, or, more generally, the Bush administration’s actions on terror. Certainly there is a consensus that the Bush administration has been a disaster and that the Iraq war was a mistake. But this doesn’t apply to specific terrorism policies, on which the White House still has more or less a political blank check to do as it pleases. (Whether a majority of the public supports those policies is debatable, but Republicans still back Bush, and Democrats are still cowed by the risk of appearing soft on the issue.) See Kevin Drum on why this is not Watergate: a well of political support remains for Bush’s terror policies, “enhanced interrogation” among them.
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July 20th, 2008 at 7:28 am
Basically it will be about timing. The bigger they are the harder they fall…
July 20th, 2008 at 8:09 am
As a member of this world of cowards we only execute the powerless…ie ‘the broke’ a step forward is to only execute the ones who are powerful and have the money to defend themselves…like the current slave masters in the white House, who have murdered over a hundred thousand people in the name of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy.’ Such BS…
July 20th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I have to disagree HiFly. The bigger they are the more protected they will be. The real criminals rarely get punished because they control the system. The low level underlings take the fall and become sacraficial goats for the public. “Glad we delt with those few bad apples, now we can move on.” It’s a farse.
July 20th, 2008 at 11:38 am
Nont only did they commit war crimes by authorising the use of torture, but they committed war crimes by illegally invading Afghanistan and Iraq.
They also killed 3,000 of their own people on September 11, 2001.
Shame on Nancy Pelosi and Congress! Shame on Nancy Pelosi and Congress! They continually give Bush money for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and they don’t even bother impeching him.
How can Congress let Bush and Cheney get away with murder?!
July 20th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
they get away with it all because everyone in congress is in on it together. duh
its like a giant mob
July 20th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Well, the real question is…When are we going to recruit our fellow American’s and DO something about it? I’m ready.
July 20th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
The system is broke. We need someone to take him to court and hope the judge or jury is not fixed. If we can get that far, then maybe the cabal that united these war criminals will give them up.I can only hope it will be soon. And then on to the next bunch of puppets to stop. It is sad that people know he is responsible for murder and several war crimes and not to mention the /Attack on privacy and everything else I did not mention and people still go on about life as though it doesnt matter. We need to wake people up.. I would like to share an easy way to spread the truth.Go to a major book store and hold up the book while you look at it ,The Prosecution of George Bush for Murder, and let people see what you are looking at, so they might at least think. I have done it on my last two trips to the bookstore and people look, but because it is on the cover of a book people dont freak out. I havent got any dirty looks. So try it out.
July 20th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
and who are the people that will prosecute him? the senate and congress are all bought and payed for,he owns the main media.the federal judges are nothing but stooges.Did they prosecute prescott
bush when he was the director of hitler’s nazi bank,as a matter of fact he was elected senator of Connecticut 9 years later.Did papa george face trial as a matter of fact they named a battle ship after him.So who is going to do anything to him.One thing for sure it ain’t going to be Joe 6 pack.
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January 28th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
They’ve ruined America’s reputation around the world , which will hurt trade and partnerships, which will hurt the economy, which will leave them “Top Of The Heap”, as fellow gangster Sinatra might say..Rumsfeld is on the Board of Directors of ALLL the giant corporations, from IBM to Coca-Cola to Ford to Sears, you name it, he’s on it..Congress is OWNED by these tools of the NWO: Pelosi and Reid are gangsters in democracy clothing, they’ll do as NWO puppets..And as figurehead leaders when Obama/Biden are assassinated, and WW3 kicks off..Maybe a nuclear enema would be a good thing for the Earth..
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