This guy that writes that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld should be tried is a kook!
* Marc Ash : truthout’s original Executive Director
SEPTEMBER 10, 2001 Monday : (ONE DAY BEFOR 9/11 ATTACKS, TRUTHOUT.COM DOMAIN IS REGISTERED)
Burkhart’s rebuttal to Butler was dead on.
I recently had a conversation with a young friend on the subject of Gitmo. She was happy that he was closing it down, and that we should never have used any kind of torture to obtain information. I gave her a lot of slack because she had just turned 23 and doesn’t yet have much experience in the Real World.
She mentioned the Geneva Convention. I explained Article 4. She told me that at least it would make us look better in the eyes of the world. I asked her how many countries in the world did not use torture far worse than water boarding. She thought about it a minute and agreed with me. When we discussed Obama’s $ 850 Billion “stimulus” package she now doesn’t think much of it either.
She may become a convert if we keep talking now and then.
Phillip Butler, just another brainwashed infiltrator. Poor guy.
The Geneva convention applies to UNIFORMED combatants. These civilian clad scum only have the same status as SPIES.