are too lazy to do their own investigative work, to simply go to Google and do what I just did? In less than five minutes they would find out that pretending that Rummy was 'out of the loop' is at the very least, a useless claim, and at worst, complicity in the covering-up of a war crime.
The press too should be held accountable for covering all of this up for seven, long years.
Rumsfeld was only sorry that the photos from Abu Ghraib came out. Unless he's had an epiphany, Rumsfeld was personally involved in the torture program and there really is no way to deny it. All that's left is to see who, the US or some World tribunal will be the first to start the prosecutions.
http://www.fidh.org/Bi-Partisan-Commission-BlamesThis week, the Senate Armed Services Committee released a bi-partisan report almost two years in the making on the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody, proving, beyond dispute, that Donald Rumsfeld was directly responsible for abusive interrogation techniques used abroad.
That was in December of last year ~
Which backs up this ~
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) have filed a total of three cases against Rumsfeld and others in Germany and France under universal jurisdiction laws, for the torture of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and in secret sites. Plaintiffs had demonstrated that Rumsfeld, in violation of the Convention against Torture, was responsible for having directly and personally crafted and ordered the use of ”harsh” interrogation techniques constituting torture. The complaints, accompanied by several hundred pages of evidence, also alleged that such techniques were implemented under Rumsfeld’s supervision, and that, starting in 2002, he personally managed several torture sessions of terrorist suspects.
Today, the Senate Committee’s report reaffirms these facts and stresses the illegality and ineffectiveness of the techniques in question.
I don't see how the US can get out of prosecuting them, starting with the appointment of a special prosecutor.
FIDH President Souhayr Belhassen said “It is no news that Donald Rumsfeld and other high-ranking Bush administration officials are personally responsible for the torture of detainees since 9/11. But it is truly significant that a United States Senate bi-partisan Committee, years later, is finally coming to terms with this reality, accepts it, and denounces it. To not follow up on this report with effective prosecutions of those quoted in the report – starting with Rumsfeld – would be absolutely scandalous to the public, to the whole international community, and to the victims of these brutal techniques – which have still not seen justice and still suffer the consequences of these treatments.”]/blockquote]
They kidnapped and tortured citizens of many countries and it's astounding that they did not believe other countries would care enough about their citizens to demand answers as to why that happened. But it does indicate how they think. They did believe they ruled the world and those men, women and children they tortured were, as Miller so eloquently said 'like dogs'.
Wolfgang Kaleck, Secretary General of ECCHR added: “In many European countries prosecutors and courts are investigating and prosecuting kidnapping and torture that were part of the CIA “Extraordinary Rendition Program,” because the crimes partly took place on European territory or were directed against European citizens. That is a good development.
This country has been ruled by some very sick people for the past eight years and I really wish I understood how that could have happened.
This three-part documentary, although it is difficult to watch, is worth watching and sending around to as many people as possible.
We, unlike the German people, can never claim 'we did not know'. Nor can the US media.
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