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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 04:44 PM
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Former DC Appeals Court Judge Suggests Bush Detention Policies Amount To WAR CRIMES.
Former DC appeals court judge suggests Bush detention policies amount to war crimes.»

According to a new Human Rights Center/Center for Constitutional Rights report, former prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay and released without charge went home with “psychological and emotional problems” and found themselves “stigmatized and shunned” and viewed either as terrorists or U.S. spies. In a forward to the report, former DC appeals court judge Patricia Wald compared the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody to the treatment Bosnian Muslims received at the hands of their Serbian captors:

The officials and guards in charge of those prison camps and the civilian leaders who sanctioned their establishment were prosecuted — often by former U.S. government and military lawyers serving with the tribunal — for war crimes, crimes against humanity and, in extreme cases, genocide. http://hrc.berkeley.edu/pdfs/Gtmo-Aftermath.pdf


Last June, Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba (ret.), the Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, also accused the Bush administration of committing “war crimes” and called for those responsible to be held to account.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/13/bush-war-crimes/

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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 04:46 PM
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1. If only we could get a CURRENT AG to say the same thing...
then we might get action.
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 04:49 PM
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2. K&R Then there is George Walker Bush's TREASON to consider too, kpete n/t
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pleah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-13-08 05:10 PM
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3. K&R
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