Posted on 11/10/2010 9:58:19 PM PST by RC one
LONDON (Reuters) - The United States must prosecute former President George W. Bush for torture if his admission in a memoir that he authorized waterboarding holds true, rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
In "Decision Points," published this week, Bush defended his decision to authorize waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning condemned by some as torture.
Bush said the practice was limited to three detainees and led to intelligence breakthroughs that thwarted attacks and saved lives. He told NBC in an interview to publicize the book that his legal adviser had told him it did "not fall within the anti-torture act."
Amnesty International's Senior Director Claudio Cordone said in a statement: "Under international law, anyone involved in torture must be brought to justice, and that does not exclude former President George W. Bush
"If his admission is substantiated, the U.S.A. has the obligation to prosecute him," he said. "In the absence of a U.S. investigation, other states must step in and carry out such an investigation themselves
Waterboarding was banned by Bush's successor, President Barack Obama, shortly after he took office in 2009. Interrogators are now required to follow interrogation guidelines laid out in the U.S. Army Field Manual, which excludes the practice.
Bush wrote that waterboarding was first approved for Abu Zubaydah, an al Qaeda figure arrested in Pakistan in 2002 who was suspected of involvement in a plot to attack Los Angeles International Airport.
When Abu Zubaydah stopped answering questions from the FBI, CIA Director George Tenet told Bush he thought the detainee had more information to offer. Bush wrote that there were two techniques, which he did not describe, that he felt went too far even though they were legal and he ordered that they not be used. But he approved the use of waterboarding. "No doubt the procedure was tough...
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“They would need an army to get to GW. There would be many Patriots there protectng him. Me included...”
They will lure him to England or Spain to accept an award, and then arrest him like they did General Pinochet. That army of angry Texans will be at home.
Would the SS detail allow it?
Incredibly, there are still liberals who insist Obama is not a Marxist and that he just wants America to be like Sweden.
That would be an act of war in many eyes. Will never happen,just dreams from liberal fathers.
“Would the SS detail allow it?”
What would they do? Shoot it out with the local police?
When Amnesty Intl. starts going after alQueda and the Taliban, MAYBE I'll pay attention to anything they have to say.
In a nutshell, my biggest issue with this is that an outside group that is funded by an extremely powerful individual who clearly intends to usurp US sovereignty by any means necessary is, once again, trying to do just that.
“Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.”
I’d say it’s a lot different. 50 years ago, we actually manufactured things. 50 years ago, we ran trade surpluses. 50 years ago, most people drove American cars. 50 years ago, the Chinese did not own any of our debt. In fact, they were starving to death because of Mao Zedong’s ill-conceived economic policies. 50 years ago, communists were America’s enemy. Now they advise the president. 50 years ago, Hollywood was as decadent as today, but they did not reflect it in their movies.
Just try it. Go ahead and try it.
Since it was a legal tool, it would be a waste of time to prosecute.
Amesty International? Core? UCLA? What & Who Elected them?
We, the US of A are a government by the People,for the People,and of the People!!!!
We elected him,that is,we elected George Bush the President of the United States of America!
The people spoke, that should be the end of it!
that’s the problem, amnesty international appears to be trying to usurp our sovereign status by making the US President answerable to outside authorities. This is consistent with the goals of George Soros who seems quite intent on weakening America. George Soros appears to fund Amnesty International, along with scores of other groups that are all focused on destroying America. Soros is probably behind this, pulling the strings as Glenn Beck would say.
Exactly.
We’ve got your back, W.
Amnesty International is NOT for prosecuting the admitted mastermind behind the 9-11 attacks then. HE was the terrorist who was waterboarded.
HE gave up credible information on numerous plots, some of the information was used to thwart the Heathrow bombing.
AI is not what it pretends to be anymore.
We still despise Communism and Communist sympathizers. So sad.
You are so right. Every country needs to push back hard against the idea of one world government. Opposing that idea trumps opposing the idiocy of this one issue.
I have a checkbook. How much $$$ do I need to donate to Amnesty in order for their leadership and staff to descend upon Crawford, TX with the purpose of effecting a citizen’s arrest on alleged war criminal Bush?
Really, I’d pay very good money to make that happen.
care to elaborate?
Ever see that satiric article about a bunch of PETA protesters showing up at a biker rally to protest bikers’ use of leather products?
Or that real life situation where a bunch of New Black Panther Party thugs were run out of a suburban neighborhood?
I’m just envisioning a similar situation should a bunch of Amnesty International punks show up in Texas thinking they’re going to arrest Bush. My guess is that the Secret Service would have to intervene ... To protect the AI folks from the Texans and make sure they made it out of the state alive. ;-)
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