George W. Bush, War Criminal?: The Bush Administration’s Liability for 269 War Crimes
George W. Bush, War Criminal?: The Bush Administration’s Liability for 269 War Crimes
Eminent jurists, professional legal organizations, and human rights monitors in this country and around the world have declared that President George W. Bush may be prosecuted as a war criminal when he leaves office for his overt and systematic violations of such international law as the Geneva and Hague Conventions and such US law as the War Crimes Act, the Anti-Torture Act, and federal assault laws. George W. Bush, War Criminal? identifies and documents 269 specific war crimes under US and international law for which President Bush, senior officials and staff in his administration, and military officers under his command are liable to be prosecuted. Haas divides the 269 war crimes of the Bush administration into four classes: 6 war crimes
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Based on information supplied in autobiographical and press sources, the book matches events in Afghanistan, Guantánamo, Iraq , and various secret places of detention with provisions in the Geneva Conventions and other international agreements on war crimes. His compilation is the first to cite a comprehensive list of specific war crimes in four categories-illegality of the decision to go to war, misconduct during war, mistreatment of prisoners of war, and misgovernment in the American occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Love it! Really explains how the president committed war crimes and got away with it. How some people live above the law.
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|Now they’re out of office, and can be prosecuted. Let the trials begin!,
Author Haas presents a most helpful list of all of the statutes members of the Bush/Cheney administration (or Cheney/Bush administration, depending on which person you think was actually running things) can be charged now with having violated.
As with most of these current works on the rogue nature of our prior administration (the habits of which are now being picked up by the Obama administration, just as so many people had predicted would be the case if congress failed to impeach and remove these miscreants from office and thus put successive administrations on notice that these were “high crimes and misdemeanors,” if not downright treason), Haas overlooks the lynch-pin, the ne plus ultra, the sine qua non of this Cheney/Bush administration. Namely, 9/11/2001. Haas assumes that there was “an attack” on the United States (or on the white-elephant, asbestos-laden World Trade Center towers 1, 2 and 7, the heavily fortified Pentagon wall, and, allegedly, a field in Shanksville, PA).
The evidence that the three World Trade Center skyscrapers were taken down with demolition explosives is now pretty conclusive–especially now that fragments of nano-thermite have been recovered from dust at the site–a “high energetic” compound/product Effects of Gas Generation on Nano-Al Fueled Energetic Materials: A comparative study of two nano-thermites that has been invented, patented, worked on, experimented with, by our very own military laboratories (Los Alamos, maybe Sandia, the Naval Weapons lab(s)–similar to the fact that the anthrax sent around to terrorize network news programs, one grocery-store tabloid in Florida, and US Senators Tom Daschle and Jim Leahy was sourced back to our biological warfare lab at Ft. Detrick, Maryland. Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak (Talk about WMDs! The US has ‘em all–chemical, biological, radiological and thermo-nuclear. No wonder our government gets away with the horse-puckey it gets away with internationally! And, like Pogo put it, “We have met the enemy, and he is US”–our government, that is. Freedom of Information inquiries have yielded only responses that “we’ve destroyed all our files, ‘cuz we only keep stuff for seven years.” It will no doubt take court action to pry loose the G2 on this stuff.) So that’s another 3,000 or so murders that will need to be factored into the Bush/Cheney prosecutions. Although, if this stuff actually close to a prosecution, I’d expect that Cheney’s heart would “give out” and Shrub would “strangle on a pretzel” to avoid facing death sentences. Dunno about the Gonzales, Rice’s, Rumsfelds, Tenets, Addington, Yoo, Bybee, Feith, Gen. Myers, Bremer III, Zelikow, Kean, Hamilton, The 9/11 Report: The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States Miers, Rove, Libby, Wolfowitz, Ashcroft, Mukasey, etc. Haas has some nice lists of folks in the chain of criminal command.
Of most interest is the US War Crimes Statute (18 USCode §2441), which provides criminal penalties for violating the Geneva Conventions (Ratified by the Senate and thus, along with statutes signed into law by the President, “the supreme law of the land”). (see pp 222-231)
The War Crimes Act provides that, in cases where death to prisoners of war is the result of violations of the Geneva Conventions, the death penalty can be sought. The latest information I’ve heard is that some 125 individuals died in US custody, and that, of that number, some 26 or so, as of last December, had been held, by military authorities, to be homicides–or murders, if you prefer a less Latinate vocabulary.
As I see it, there are, then, roughly 125 death sentence invitations floating out there–minimally 25, which is surely enough to cover the top 25 members of the Cheney/Bush administration.
Haas mentions the growing significance of jus cogens, or compelling, universal law. “In 1998, when Chile’s Augusto Pinochet was served a warrant in England from a Spanish judge for offenses committed while he was president of Chile from 1973 to 1990 [a position our very own little shop of horrors, the CIA, supported putting him in, with its overthrow of the democratically elected Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens. On September 11, 1973. Does our CIA have something special about 9/11, I wonder? A talismanic date? Best time to launch a new product?], the world suddenly awoke to the principle of universal crimes. Although Pinochet eventually returned to Chile for trial…
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