Dems can't save Chimpy. And if they try they become accessories after the fact and might very well find themselves in the dock next to George some day. About a million dead Iraqi men, women and children on these thugs bloody hands so far. I will wait with baited breath to see which Dems want to roll the dice with the Crackhead In Chief and his minions on this one.
Because some day they may pay for what they have done right along with him.
Don
http://osdir.com/ml/politics.progressive.news/2005-11/msg00116.htmlAs George W. Bush said about international law, "I don't know what you
mean about international law." This is a lawless world which didn't begin
with George Bush, but not in my memory has there been so much obvious
incompetence. It is as-if they don't care anymore who knows what they
intend to do to keep inequity the status quo.
Thomas Jefferson purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803
doubling the size of America and he called it "the Empire of Liberty."
Freedom is on the March
"The idea that theirs was an empire of liberty (for white men) enabled
Americans to ignore some unpleasant truths about westward expansion. for
one thing, the continent was not , in fact, empty. For centuries, the West
had been a meeting ground of peoples whose relationships were shaped by
conquest as much as free choice. It was also, therefore, the site of
clashing definitions of liberty. `The life my people want is a life of
freedom,' the great leader of the Lakota Sioux, Sitting Bull, would later
proclaim. The Native American idea of freedom, however, hwich centered on
preserving their cultural and political autonomy and retaining contgrol of
ancetral lands, as incompatable with that of western settlers, for whom
freedom entailed the right to expand across the continent and establish
farms, ranches, and mines on land that Indians considered their own.
Indian removal--accomplished by fraud, intimidation, and violence---was
indispensable to the triumpt of manifest destiny and the American mission
of spreading freedom." (Eric Foner, The Story of American Freedom, 1998)
No Safe Haven
"Before embarking on international travels, David Addington and others
who are said to be closely associated with the crafting of the Bush
administration's policy on the interrogation of detainees would do
well to reflect on the fate of Augusto Pinochet." * snip
He goes on to say the legal opinions of these lawyers advising the Bush
administration have been very clearly "inconsistent" with what is
stipulated and required by international law allowing an illegal much more
aggressive interrogation on detainees. Those with a connection to the Bush
administration who may have had a hand crafting torture policy would be
well advised not to travel far from the protection of the boundaries of
the United States or they could find themselves arrested, extradicted and
tried in and international or national court.
The international torture convention also establishes the mechanism for
enforcement and the U.S. and more than 140 other countries who have
adopted and joined the convention agreed to take these actions; in fact
they must, if "any person who has committed torture is found on their
territory."
"Such a person is to be investigated, and if the facts warrant, must
either be prosecuted for the crime of torture or extradited to another
country that will prosecute." (ibid)
There must be NO safe havens in the growing reach of international
criminal law. This became infinitely clear with Pinochet when he was
arrested in England. Not only are those who gave legal advise for the use
of torture at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere, George W. Bush is also
subject to prosecution and at risk if he travels when he is no longer
president.
My advice to George W. Bush: Retire to Crawford and stay there.
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