George W Bush On Prosecution Of War Crimes »
Posted By jovial 7 months, 1 week ago in Political NewsPresident George W Bush does have an opinion on war crimes. Contrary to the fact that he has remained silent and out of the limelight in recent months. Let's take a look at this video and see how Bush feels about war crimes and the prosecution of those that offend the law.
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Grew up In Brooklyn. Joined the Navy in 1976 stayed in 10 years. Aircraft Electronics tech. Worked for Major Govt. contractor then settled in California ...
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donald517 months, 1 week ago
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But Dumya didn't dare turn over Sadam to the world court where Sadam would have had a world stage to pronounce all the times that repugs in the past helped him or wanted feedback for the bio/chem weapons that America gave him!
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Clinton at least turned Milosevic over to the world court, rightly! -
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Spadecaller7 months, 1 week ago
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Thanks for posting this video; it sure cuts through the bull.
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I find this quote from George Bush quite interesting too:
"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."
George W. Bush
Interesting and quite revealing how he left out the Judicial branch of government, where the hiring and firing of judges and the appointment of activist judges had everything to do with those that wrote the secret laws that justified the alleged right for the commander-in-chief to defy the laws governing torture.
For twenty-two months Bybee's interpretations of the Geneva Conventions guided the Bush Administration. Bybee's extraordinary reading of the law permitted torture at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers, including Gitmo. The memo defines torture so narrowly that only activities resulting in "death, organ failure or the permanent impairment of a significant body function" qualify.
It also claims, absurdly, that Americans can defend themselves if criminally prosecuted for torture by relying on the criminal law defenses of necessity and/or self-defense, based on the horror of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The first memo advises that when acting as commander-in-chief, the president can go beyond the law. The intent of the memo was to provide the White House a legal defense for torture. The second top secret memo dated august 1, 2002 detailed how much water boarding Americans could inflict on an enemy combatant during one day and precisely how a detainees head could be banged against the wall. The crafters of the torture system wrote into secret law these details permitting the brutal torture of detainees in secret detention centers throughout the world.
The amount of cover-up and fabrications are astounding and they need to be addressed by a hearing in an international tribunal. There, we should abide by Bush's insincere promise that war crimes and criminals will not go unpunished.-
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jovial7 months, 1 week ago
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Olbermann has a knack for cutting through the right wing B.S. He's not a Hannity or Beck. He really digs deep into these stories to try to reveal the truth. The right has tried to throw him into the category with Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly to discredit him. That's a severe discredit to the type of journalism that he does.
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beavith17 months, 1 week ago
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what international court? the one that protects our constitutional rights as american citizens? wait. there isn't one.
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when we remand our own citizens to some international kangaroo court, we've stopped being a nation. i would ask that the gov't official that even suggests that be fired, recalled or impeached.
its one thing for the US to contest treaty interpretation via something like the WTO, but throwing our citizens over the wall, especially since we now extend constitutional protections to non-citizens, is oxymoronic and hypocritical. -
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Endoscopy7 months, 1 week ago
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Well Spadecaller you quote Bush. "The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law." So why don't you look up the US Federal law on torture and tell us how waterboarding breaks this law. I am so tired of liberals ranting when they do not know what they are talking about.
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Prove me wrong.
1. The federal law is written such that it excludes anything without inflicting extreme pain.
2. Congress was informed in classified meetings with congress what kind of methods were going to be used. All but one agreed. Some of them asked if harsher methods should be used.
What the above means is that Congress wrote the law. Congress was given an opportunity to review the methods and stop them if they wished. Your Democrats approved of the methods.
But liberals just love to Bash Bush for any or no reason.
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tanglang7 months, 1 week ago
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Shame yall don't watch Fox News. You would have seen what W had to say about this last week. Also, msnbc and uberdouche are trash. You can hear his bias every time he says "Mr Bush" followed by "President Obama". He's a tool for his blatant bias and you guys are tools for watching him.
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donald517 months, 1 week ago
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Tang, no bias on Keith's show... he always shows you the facts to support his position! Unlike Fox which always has its regular viewers rated the least informed of any regular viewers - you alone validate the studies! You really are suchj a poor example of an American, you biggoted fool!
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Can't be a sane americanm, but only a bigotted fool, to so disgustingly attack our president after only 100 days! -
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Tangent0017 months, 1 week ago
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A little history. After 9/11, the CIA was tasked with determining what they would do with high-value detainees that might have actionable intelligence. The CIA was used to boots-on-the-ground intelligence gathering and really had no policies regarding the extraction of information from captives. They looked to the SERE program that was developed by the USAF and expanded to the Army and Navy to train personnel to resist the interrogation techniques that could potentially be employed by the Soviets against US captives. The CIA apparently adopted the techniques as methods to use against Al Qaeda captives, without doing much more research. What they didn't know was that these techniques were developed by the Soviets specifically to illicit false confessions from US captives, not extract actionable intelligence.
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cowboygrandpa7 months, 1 week ago
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Bush called for a trial. He should get one. He and Dick Chain 'em down and waterboard them. Along with all the other scum who allowed it to happen.
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They can answer for it now or answewr for it later. If I were them I'd choose now. LOL
As far as those defending the former president. Well you still have a bunch of idiots running around who thought Hitler was right. Insanity !!!! How can ya stop stupidity ?? When stupidity is the inability to learn ?? Hasn't the far right and the far left shown this to be true. -
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hyperbola7 months, 1 week ago
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The interesting thing is that so many americans think anything has changed with the arrival of Obama!
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galletta61217 months, 1 week ago
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Obama will give anything to the anti-American left to see to it that his Socialist dream comes true. When these anti-war idiots take to the streets, it’s never really about the torture, the victims, or the cost of the war; it’s all about them. More specifically, it’s about their many anti-establishment agendas. Whether it is anger at society for not accepting their Homosexual lifestyles, their failures and short comings as meaningful human beings, or just their pure hatred for an American culture that flies in the face of their degenerate lifestyles. Whatever the reason, and there are many, the anti-war mob are the driving force behind this presidents irresponsible decision to ban Water boarding. It’s not his fear of this mob hurting him at the voting booth; it’s his desire to create as many angry needy misfits as possible to see his Socialist agenda become a reality. The more needy angry and fearful misfits he creates, the better his chances to reach his Socialist goals. It’s the reason why he has no problem throwing trillions at a problem he hopes becomes worse. He would like nothing better then the total collapse of America’s capitalist economy. Its collapse would create tens of millions of new angry, needy Americans looking for a savior, and falling into the Socialist abyss.
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galletta61217 months, 1 week ago
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If it were the Bush administrations intention to truly torture people, why would he stop at water boarding? Don't you think if he knew he were doing something illegal he would have just as well used more harsh forms of torture. Don't you think he would have whipped out his evil book of torturous techniques, and found more suitable punishment for the Muslim scum who murdered 3000 innocent Americans? Is it meaningless to you that innocent Americans suffered through the most hellish torture imaginable? Trapped in a burning inferno and waiting in fear for the help that never came, as the flames inched closer and they had to bear the pain of their melting blistering skin The unthinkable torture they must have went through in making a decision to end their lives in a slightly less painful way, jumping from a one hundred and ten story building. Did it ever dawn on you the amount of torture those people in Pennsylvania suffered through as they plunged straight towards the ground at five hundred miles per hour. How every second of their hellish plunge feeling like an eternity to them. Or how the countless pedestrians in lower Manhattan found themselves choking on a mixture of poisonous debris, including the vaporized flesh of human beings they worked and ate lunch with every day. You people who pretend to care about the torture of others have no credibility when it comes to the pain of a human being. You could care less about the pain and suffering of human beings, especially those of you who have disrespected the memory of the 9/11 victims by supporting their murderers well being. You are cowards, incapable of knowing the difference between torture and a necessary discomfort. Sticking a scissor through the neck of a child who is very much born is O.k. with you and your bunch, but roughing up a piece of human garbage, and their asking for the presidents head. Your whole motive is the protection and dedication to your parties (D) and its jackass mascot. When you so called moderates finally wake up to the realization that the Democratic party has become a cesspool of Anti-Americans bent on turning the United States into its tea colored Godless Utopia where the celebration of multiculturalism goes on 24/7, and is enforced by the wickedness of politically correct rules. Hanging a Christmas ornament in a public place is becoming a hate crime., Yet protecting and celebrating a religion that is bent on destroying us all, “That’s Diversity” When the next 9/11 comes, and it takes the life of someone close to your heart, I'm sure you will afford their murderers the same liberal hospitality. Right?
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