Posted on 06/28/2005 11:56:56 PM PDT by FairOpinion
Stop Blaming the Troops -- Investigate the Real Culprits of Abuse
The time has come to investigate the Bush Administration's role in the prisoner abuse and humiliation that has motivated our enemies in the war on terror and endangers the well-being of our fighting forces.
For generations, the United States has been a powerful voice of moral authority in the world. After World War II, we led the world in creating the Geneva Conventions and prosecuting war criminals at Nuremberg, and later became one of the first nations to ratify the Convention Against Torture. Even today, Slobodan Milosevic is being tried for war crimes thanks to a U.S.-led NATO air strike against his brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Balkans.
Unfortunately, the Bush administration has squandered our legacy of moral leadership.
With the right leadership and accountability, couldn't the Administration have prevented the embarrassment of Abu Ghraib and the controversy at Guantanamo Bay? While some are blaming individual soldiers, doesn't at least some of the responsibility rest with the civilian leadership of our government? Don't the American people deserve the truth? Shouldn't Congress lead an investigation?
Please sign my petition urging Chairman John Warner of the Senate Armed Services Committee to hold hearings on the Bush Administration's statements, policies, orders, and actions related to prisoner abuse.
Sincerely,
Wes Clark
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Full Petition Text:
Chairman Warner:
I urge you to investigate the Bush Administration's role in the prisoner abuse and humiliation that has motivated our enemies in the war on terror and endangers the well-being of our fighting forces.
Today, the reports of abuse and humiliation at detainment facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Cuba are distracting the world from focusing on winning the war on terror. Although the military chain of command seems to have properly investigated the role of its personnel and held accountable those in the wrong, the civilian leadership in this country has failed to do the same.
How can we win the war on terrorism, a fight for democracy and freedom in America and around the world, if we forsake the very principles and institutions for which we are fighting?
The laws of war are designed to regulate combat and to protect non-combatants from the violence and degradation of war. The conduct of this Administration may ultimately lead to a green-light for our enemies to torture our soldiers when captured -- we owe it to our men and women in uniform and their families to investigate.
I urge you to hold hearings and investigate the Bush Administration's role in the abuse and neglect of detainees. For the sake of our international reputation, and for the sake of our soldiers in the field, we can't afford to keep silent.
Signed by:
[Your name]
[Your address]
More Proof that ROVE IS RIGHT: The Dems are a bunch of terrorist loving traitors of the American people.
Our men and women are in danger every day and all Clark worries about is the terrorists' comfort. No wonder why so many who served with Clark hated his guts.
More for the "Rove is Right" collection.
WESLEY CLARK IS A ROVIAN MOLE!!!!!!!!!!!
(just thought I'd add a little DU paranoia)
;-)
God Almiighty. Please save us from the Weasley Clarks.
Thank you General Weasely Clark.
Nice move, hiring this guy, Fox News. Nice move.
Hey, Wes, how about a nice....hot....cup....of STFU!
To top it off, I noticed the home page for his PAC is:
http://www.securingamerica.com/
The nerve of this guy!
FGS! That is quite a page. He's one ambitious weasel. I can't understand FNC hiring him. He's damn near a traitor imo.
This jerk isn't interested in the welfare of our troops, he's not even interested in the WOT, he's just a fool playing politics with the lives of soldiers and America's safety. God help us and deliver us from the enemy within.
No uniform, no Geneva Convention rules.
In WWII the USSC agreed that even a US citizen, committing acts of war against this country could be (and was) executed.
So if we were lawful executing our own citizen, we would surely be lawful to execute the various "unlawful combatants."
One thing I suggest the left has achieved: Cut way down on the number of prisoners being taken. It is simply a lot more expedient to kill them all, than to house them, and subject the military to endless claims of "abuse."
The military would never admit this is so. But my guess is, that it is so.
So perhaps we should be grateful the left is doing their part, cutting down the "overhead" of the war effort. Overhead = maintaining prisoners of war, or more correctly unlawful combatants.
Sure we can you idiot. Ever hear that "loose lips sink ship"?
He is clearly more worried about the wellbeing of the terrorists, who want to kill us, than the lives of the American people.
I guess he would prefer if we just released the terrorists, instead of interrogating them to foil attacks on innocent Americans.
"Stop Blaming the Troops.."
Hey Weasel, why don't you just stop "Blaming" period. And try doing something different, like HELPING our President, Military and Troops beat the terrorists. We're in a WAR, do you remember what that means?
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