Re: Human right Violations by US forces or not?
Getting back to the title of this thread:
" Stripping Rumsfeld and Bush of Impunity" is about where the buck stops regarding the violations by the US forces. Longish article but worth sticking with it.
"…The Bush Administration’s legal troubles don’t end with Sanchez or Gonzales. They go right to the top: to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and President Bush himself. Both Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International USA say there is “prima facie” evidence against Rumsfeld for war crimes and torture. And Amnesty International USA says there is also “prima facie” evidence against Bush for war crimes and torture. (According to Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, “prima facie evidence” is “evidence sufficient to establish a fact or to raise a presumption of fact unless rebutted.”)
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Amnesty International’s call for foreign countries to nab Rumsfeld and Bush also seems unlikely to be heeded any time soon. How, physically, could another country arrest Bush, for instance? And which country would want to face the wrath of Washington for doing so?
But that we have come this far—where the only option for justice available seems to be to rely on officials of other governments to apprehend our own—is a damning indictment in and of itself.
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http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0527-34.htm