Col. Wilkerson: Cheney and Rumsfeld, Guilty of War Crimes? - Rolling Stone

[WillyT]

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Colin Powell’s former chief of staff has written a provocative piece, Dogging The Torture Story, in which he links the homicides of 25 detainees to the Vice President and the SECDEF:

Documents and memos that have already made their way into the public domain make it clear that the Office of the Vice President bears responsibility for creating an environment conducive to the acts of torture and murder committed by U.S. forces in the war on terror.

There is, in my view, insufficient evidence to walk into an American courtroom and win a legal case (though an international courtroom for war crimes might feel differently). But there is enough evidence for a soldier of long service — someone like me with 31 years in the Army — to know that what started with John Yoo, David Addington, Alberto Gonzales, William Haynes at the Pentagon, and several others, all under the watchful and willing eye of the Vice President, went down through the Secretary of Defense to the commanders in the field….

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Link: http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/?p=276

'Dogging the Torture Story' Link: http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00214

Can you say... The Hague???

Sure... I knew ya could!

:bounce::evilgrin::bounce:

[AlamoDemoc]

1. WOW! I admire Col. Wilkerson...his words ring truer by the day

...thanks posting this.

[highnooner]

20. He forgot Wtf.

He is the person "in charge", isn't he?

Ummmm, nevermind.

[Ghost in the Machine]

2. It's almost frog march time for ALL of them!

[rodeodance]

3. It want down as you say--but the international community just slaps him

on the wrist. Lots of condemations--yet I dare to say--that will be it.

[RedEarth]

4. Thanks for posting....Col. Wilkerson is playing hardball with this article

[madokie]

5. international criminal court and the home of the convicted

Have you seen anything more beautiful

[Sherman A1]

8. Very Nice!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

18. It's only missing a few "things."

[madokie]

19. actually quite a few, to many to name

[WillyT]

6. Kick !!!

:kick:

[redacted]

7. Kick

[Wonk]

9. K & 5th R, nt

[DemReadingDU]

10. read also Steve Clemons: The Washington Note

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served General Colin Powell in various capacities as a close aide for 16 years -- most recently as Powell's Chief of Staff at the Department of States, has written a short, matter of fact assessment of the torture proclivities during the Bush administration and the Vice President's central role in promoting a "pro-torture" national security/military environment.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001524.php


Dogging the torture story
http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=00214

[stop the bleeding]

11. Very cool

I don't see Cheney lasting too much longer inside the beltway - at least not in a public servant role anymore.

[tavalon]

16. I know technically he is

but I've never seen him or any of his neocon ilk as public servants.

[hootinholler]

12. Thank you Willy T!

Thank you Rolling Stone!

Please sign the petition/resolution.

-Hoot

[Amonester]

13. I have a dream that GOOD people like him who loathe torture and

all war criminals would get together and successfully *overthow* the war criminals and torture advocates that have highjacked the US government since November 2000 and installed a despicable Military Junta (re.: The Project for a New American Century, or PNAC), using proprietary secret software to steal elections and using lies to loot the Treasury.

I also have a nightmare that if the good Col. Wilkerson (who's against torture and all war criminals) cannot act to restore honesty in the WH & Pentagon, all hopes to restore the good name of the US so many fought and died for in the past to defeat torturers and war criminals like the Nazis will be lost forever.


Edit: (Hopefully) clearer posting.

[flyarm]

15. Amonester, i share your nightmare!!..n/t

[flyarm]

14. I PRAY FOR Col. Wilkerson..THAT HE STAYS OFF SMALL PLANES

that he checks his car breaks frequently...and that he has documented he would never commit suicide...

and i thank Col. Wilkerson for his service to this nation..before and more important now!

i salute this wonderful patriot with my utmost respect!!

fly

[The Magistrate]

17. There Is Little Room For Doubt, Sir, That They Are

Our own Supreme Court has made clear the Geneva Conventions apply to the current situation, and that they were not and are not being adhered to.