Archive for the 'war crimes' Category
Treating Humans Like Livestock
Posted on August 7, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under detainee abuse, war crimes | Leave a Comment
This is what our country has been reduced to by the unforgivable criminals running our government. We put living human beings in crates the size of coffins.
The U.S. military is segregating violent Iraqi prisoners in wooden crates that in some cases are not much bigger than the prisoners.
The military released photos of what it calls [...]
Fun With Headlines
Posted on July 22, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under George W Bush, war crimes | Leave a Comment
I know! Yesterday he was hanging out with our Olympic athletes, right here in Washington!
See? The war criminal is right there in plain sight!
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We think the same things at the same time, we just can’t do anything about it. So don’t ask me ask the ministry, so don’t ask me ask the ministry
Posted on April 10, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, John Ashcroft, detainee abuse, torture, war crimes | Leave a Comment
The big news this morning is ABC’s torture scoop:
In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.
The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings [...]
The Yoo Memo Is Freed
Posted on April 1, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under Bush administration, Department of Justice, John Yoo, detainee abuse, torture, war crimes | Leave a Comment
Time to fire up the international war crimes tribunal!
Federal laws prohibiting assault and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president’s ultimate authority as commander-in-chief overrode such statutes, according to a newly declassified 2003 Justice Department memo released today.
The memo–which was rescinded just nine months after it was [...]
America Doesn’t Torture
Posted on March 31, 2008 by andrew- Filed Under 60 minutes, Bush administration, Murat Kurnaz, detainee abuse, war crimes | Leave a Comment
Read this. Seriously, read it. Or watch the 60 Minutes piece:
Getting booed at a baseball game doesn’t begin to serve as fair punishment for the men responsible. (Nor does being forced to talk to Joe Morgan for half an hour, for that matter.) I’m not optimistic when it comes to Murat Kurnaz’s odds of ever [...]
