Posted on 10/12/2011 11:57:35 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Arrest Bush, Amnesty asks Canada
From correspondents in Ottawa AFP October 13, 2011 5:03AM
AMNESTY International has called on Canadian authorities to arrest and prosecute George W Bush, saying the former US president authorised "torture" as he directed the US-led war on terror.
Mr Bush is expected to attend an economic summit in Surrey in Canada's westernmost British Columbia province on October 20.
London-based Amnesty made a case for Mr Bush's legal responsibility for a series of human rights violations in a memorandum submitted last month to Canadian authorities but only now released to the media.
"Canada is required by its international obligations to arrest and prosecute former president Bush given his responsibility for crimes under international law including torture," Amnesty's Susan Lee said.
"As the US authorities have, so far, failed to bring former president Bush to justice, the international community must step in. A failure by Canada to take action during his visit would violate the UN Convention Against Torture and demonstrate contempt for fundamental human rights." Ms Lee said.
Amnesty, backed by the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group, says Mr Bush authorised the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" and "waterboarding" on detainees held in secret by the Central Intelligence Agency between 2002 and 2009.
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How come these commies aren’t calling for the arrest of Obama for ordering the killing of an American citizen (Ali-Wacky, or whatever)? Duh?
Obama continued Gitmo....
So they can have Bush if they have the Cajones to Take away Obama at the same time.
Amnesty International: the folks who want President Bush arrested but believe Mumia Abu Jamal is a victim of injustice.
Swell. Just swell.
They should saying arrest Obama instead.
“Arrest Bush, Amnesty”
They need to make up their minds.
My thoughts exactly!
When will they notice that the Obamareich has been busily arming drug gangs in Mexico, and that hundreds of brown people have been killed as a result?
Canada shouldn’t let fear and common sense hold them back.
I swear, harm so much as a single hair on President Bush’s head and you will start a fire, so to speak, that you will never be able to put out.......
I remember reading sometimes ago where Barack Obama hinted that George Bush ‘torture lawyers’ may be prosecuted. I wonder how this sits with the lawyers that justified the recent American killing overseas?
Oh really? Then arrest 0 for ordering the killing of an American citizen.
To be fair, Amnesty International did ask the U.S. to arrest Ahmadinejad when he arrived at the U.N. for his crimes against the Baha’ ;i.......oh wait.......never mind.
You just don't get it do you?
It is not what you do that counts, it's if the self appointed elites believe you had good intentions or bad intentions. If you were trying to be fair or trying to be mean.
If a lot of other things which will be determined on a case by case basis.
Wowsers - the nutjobs just keep poring out of the woodwork.
Kinda like cockroaches . . . . . .
It appears that Amnesty International only wants Republican Presidents subjected to kangaroo courts in other countries. I don’t think they have pressed for Clinton to be tried for killing civilians in Serbia, or Obama for killing civilians in Libya or Afghanistan.
There is no nation on this planet which would arrest President Bush...it would be suicide for them. Amnesty International is a scumbag organization and deserves to be nullified for just requesting such an absurd request for the arrest of one of histories greatest liberators...
Well put Jocko from Canada! Glad we are neighbors!!! Was just up near your fair country last week...was in Minnesota hiking the Superior Hiking Trail. That is near and in the Boundary Waters...the US’s side of what you guys call Quetico. Beautiful area! Wish I had remembered to bring my passport so we could have visited just north of Grand Portage.
I’m sure glad they went about killing 3000+ Americans in a constitutional way on 9/11, not to mention the property damage that went along with it. No one to arrest here, move along now.
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