| Torture is not a policy. It is a crime. |
| [T]he practice of murdering unarmed suspects - especially after they've been detained - violated the law of war and could have opened up the offending country's chain of command to war-crimes charges.
However, while such actions by leaders of, say, Serbia or Sudan would provoke demands for war-crimes tribunals, other rules apply when the offending nation is the United States. Given its "superpower" status, the United States and its senior leadership appear to be effectively beyond the reach of international law - and in the case of Bush, beyond domestic accountability. Source: "Bush's Hit Teams" by Robert Parry = Truthout.org - 07/15/09 Torturing prisoners is a federal as well as an international crime. To debate it as if it were simply a policy dispute is to debate it in the wrong arena. The attorney general has a duty... not an option, but an obligation... to prosecute crimes wherever they are discovered. No matter how wealthy, influential or well-born the perpetrator. |
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| Those who advocate torture cannot complain when torture is used on Americans. But you know those who complain the loudest will be those who advocated torture the most. | Linda Denton |
6/19/2009 |
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