Malaysia: HISTORIC JUDGMENT. Bush & Associates Found Guilty of Torture

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10. You going to give him a real trial and justice?

So a tribunal was formed and they have made a statement condemning torture.

No one is going to the gallows do to this decision nor will anyone be arrested , shot or put in jail. Nor should this tribunal be the basis for it. I would agree that would be totally inappropriate and would be against any suggestion that it should be.

This tribunal decision is purely a statement on the events that occurred and that is all.

Will it put these crimes back in the international spotlight and remind the people of what occurred even though no one will do anything about it. I sure hope so. This is the substantive results I am hoping for. It's not like I expect to see Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld being lead away in handcuffs because of this verdict.

So until there is a REAL CRIMINAL trial I guess I take comfort in knowing people still give a damn about what those bastards did by forming a tribunal, investigating what happened, and making a statement in regards to it.

Hell, Rumsfeld came right out on TV and said he was going to ignore the Geneva conventions ban on torture. These guys felt they could do whatever they wanted to. One look at the pictures from Abu Ghraib should show that we were operating outside the realm of international law and the Geneva Convention.