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(Nov. 10) -- Amnesty International is calling for the prosecution of George W. Bush following the former president's admission to authorizing waterboarding techniques, according to a report on the human rights group's website.
"Under international law, anyone involved in torture must be brought to justice, and that does not exclude former President George W. Bush," Amnesty International Senior Director Claudio Cordone said in a statement. "If his admission is substantiated, the USA has the obligation to prosecute him. In the absence of a U.S. investigation, other states must step in and carry out such an investigation themselves."
Amnesty International Calls to Prosecute Bush for Admitted Waterboarding
I support this and basically feel that these activities constitute a war crime.
If this gets legs, then we'll have an opportunity to more closely define torture in light of the treaties and laws that exist on the subject. Is waterboarding torture? There's sure to be a debate.
If this gets legs, then we'll have an opportunity to more closely define torture in light of the treaties and laws that exist on the subject. Is waterboarding torture? There's sure to be a debate.
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"The debate over the prosecution of Bush and waterboarding is also playing out in Congress, specifically among two New York representatives. Siding with Amnesty International, Democrat Jerrold Nadler has urged a full investigation with the potential for prosecution."
Jerrold is a real piece of work.....
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Amnesty International Calls to Prosecute Bush for Admitted Waterboarding
I support this and basically feel that these activities constitute a war crime.
... any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind,...
UN Convention Against Torture
I want Amnesty International and the U.N banned from the U.S. and Obama impeached for violation of his oath of office.
A new LAW demanding all who run for President must prove it and in court if need be, and if found to have run illegally you get a mandatory 10 years in Federal prison no exceptions and Presidents can never declare a Presidential pardon for any crime committed by anyone in the administration of the President charged with any crime, or misdemeanor, including removed Presidents.
But none of that's not going to happen either, because it's too close to justice.
Amnesty International hasn't even been able to close Gitmo yet. :doh
I am all for water boarding. See America always takes the high road even in torture. Water boarding is not torture. SERE school was torture and I enlisted to go through it.
And any of you hypocrites want to sit here in judgement want to tell me that if your child was being held hostage and the one person whom could save their life was sitting in front of you and refuse to talk, tell me that you wouldnt consider and then follow through with doing anything within your means to get them to talk.
Do they water board you till you're banging your head on the wall in solitary trying to kill yourself? :roll:
"There should be little doubt from American history that we consider that as torture otherwise we wouldn't have tried and convicted Japanese for doing that same thing to Americans," McCain said during a news conference.
Shouldn't Bush get Amnesty?
On a serious note, while water-boarding is horrible to experience, it does not rise to the lever of torture. [...]
The key word is severe. In order for pain or suffering to be considered severe the effects must be lasting and/or permanent. While there are moments in which you feel like you are drowning, when the water is stopped, so does the sensation. Water-boarding may seem like torture, but it doesn't fit the definition.
The US government executed Japanese soldiers for torture. They waterboarder US soldiers. The US viewed waterboarding as torture
So you are saying you would allow your child to die without trying to the any info out of the person that knew to save them?
Do they water board you till you're banging your head on the wall in solitary trying to kill yourself? :roll:
I thought Obama was supposed to do that last January?Maybe he should just send the last detainees to Saudi Arabia where they can get rehabilitated with finger-painting lessons. Then they can rejoin al-Qaeda in Yemen where Obama can uphold American values and due process by splattering their body parts all over the Arabian Desert with Hellfire missiles.
McCain: Japanese Hanged For Waterboarding - CBS News
It was clearly considered torture during WW2, so why the double standard now.
But as for charging Bush, unless he personally commanded it, I don't see the point.
Answe my question then I will answer yours.So you're saying the end justifies the means?
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