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Rosa Brooks: Did Bush commit war crimes?
Los Angeles Times ^ | July 1, 2006 | Rosa Brooks

Posted on 07/01/2006 1:20:50 PM PDT by mb_in_ca

THE SUPREME Court on Thursday dealt the Bush administration a stinging rebuke, declaring in Hamdan vs. Rumsfeld that military commissions for trying terrorist suspects violate both U.S. military law and the Geneva Convention.

But the real blockbuster in the Hamdan decision is the court's holding that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention applies to the conflict with Al Qaeda — a holding that makes high-ranking Bush administration officials potentially subject to prosecution under the federal War Crimes Act.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bush; gwot; scotus; terrorism; waronterror; wot
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To: FairOpinion
It seems these days that the more educated the person is the more stupid they become. The real frightening thing about these people is that they seem to think they are qualified to charge us astronomical amounts of money to educated our children when in reality they are not worth two cents.
21 posted on 07/01/2006 2:55:01 PM PDT by SHOOT THE MOON bat (Disclaimer: No live moonbats were harmed during the making of this screen name.)
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To: mb_in_ca
Al Queda ally Rosa Brooks. Part of the vast democrat party army at war against the American People. Enemy Propagandist. Deceiver. Traitor.


22 posted on 07/01/2006 3:08:48 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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To: mb_in_ca
Since sometime on November 8, 2000, the day after the election, the Democrats have been looking for something dramatic and final to do away with their opponents. 9/11 didn't tempt them to moderate their approach, it increased their desperation. They became even more frantic after the invasion of Iraq. Finally, the Supreme court gives them hope as they see this decision. Thus:

In other words, with the Hamdan decision, U.S. officials found to be responsible for subjecting war on terror detainees to torture, cruel treatment or other "outrages upon personal dignity" could face prison or even the death penalty.

23 posted on 07/01/2006 4:02:49 PM PDT by JimSEA (America cannot have an exit strategy from the world.)
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To: mb_in_ca

Rosa evidently did not even search her Nexis Lexis data base for White House statements about the applicability of the Geneva Convention to the WOT and WH policy toward terrorist detainees.

Psst Rosa: The US has an attorney general and the WH has bounteous counsel to provide guidance in the applicability of laws of warfare and treatment of enemies of America.

Someone please send Rosa a $5 bill so she can buy a clue. She evidently considers the WH response to the 9-11 attacks and interpretation of the GC to NON-uniformed, NON-GC signatory, NON-national combatants - to be "novel" ....

without pondering whether the style of warfare, the targets, and the transnational RELIGIOUS affiliation of the combatants...might also be a bit "novel".

After all, the GC was not written with guidelines for treating a war launched by a religion against another nation's civilians.

WH press statement on GC and treatment of enemy combatants-Please read and ponder where and why where our President deserves to be accused of "war crimes".

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/20030507-18.html


24 posted on 07/01/2006 5:01:47 PM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

in addition...

She is nothing more than an ad copy writer for the DNC posing as a credentialed jounalist. She'll probably get a pulitzer for this piece in recognition of her abject dishonesty.


25 posted on 07/01/2006 5:23:36 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

Again...Bush is the real criminal or so left claims. But yet again, no mention ever of the terrorists who behead women, children, entire families and now our soldiers.

God help us all if these people ever regain power.


26 posted on 07/01/2006 6:33:32 PM PDT by Phibes
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To: Eddie01

"She is nothing more than an ad copy writer for the DNC posing as a credentialed jounalist"

amen.


27 posted on 07/02/2006 3:35:11 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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