More on war crimes....
As mentioned before on this blog, the administration is running scared now that it faces the possibility of war crimes charges.
This is evidenced by their current effort to pass law that provides them with retroactive immunity from prosecution. Why would they need this if no violations were committed?
The fact is that this administration purposely and intentionally decided to make ignoring the Geneva conventions and the use of torture a matter of policy. It must be pointed out here that the U.S. signed this treaty (the Geneva Conventions) which makes it a matter of U.S. Law. The Supreme court has, in Hamdan, re-enforced this fact. This makes the Bush/Rumsfeld policy illegal. Any violations of the Geneva conventions, or hague are therefore violations of U.S. Law. The administration's push for immunity law now makes more sense, especially if they already know war crimes were committed. And we already know that they were committed. Here is just one example. A transcription of some testimony in the Abu Garab investigations. Warning, this testimony is graphic and disturbing. Even more disturbing is that there is lots more of it out there.
This is evidenced by their current effort to pass law that provides them with retroactive immunity from prosecution. Why would they need this if no violations were committed?
The fact is that this administration purposely and intentionally decided to make ignoring the Geneva conventions and the use of torture a matter of policy. It must be pointed out here that the U.S. signed this treaty (the Geneva Conventions) which makes it a matter of U.S. Law. The Supreme court has, in Hamdan, re-enforced this fact. This makes the Bush/Rumsfeld policy illegal. Any violations of the Geneva conventions, or hague are therefore violations of U.S. Law. The administration's push for immunity law now makes more sense, especially if they already know war crimes were committed. And we already know that they were committed. Here is just one example. A transcription of some testimony in the Abu Garab investigations. Warning, this testimony is graphic and disturbing. Even more disturbing is that there is lots more of it out there.
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