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War criminals
(2)Reporting from Washington — A bipartisan Senate report released Thursday concludes that decisions made by former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld were a “direct cause” of widespread detainee abuses, and that other Bush administration officials were to blame for creating a legal and moral climate that contributed to inhumane treatment.
The report, endorsed by Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is the most forceful denunciation to date of the role that Rumsfeld and other top officials played in the prisoner abuse scandals of the last five years.
tortureIt mystifies me as to why this report is being announced now, at the end of the week and at a time of the year in the political calendar when it will not get much play.
The report calls for no sanctions to be imposed, even though it implies that high US officials committed war crimes.
But if I were Rumsfeld and Bush, I’d avoid a lot of travel abroad from now on.
2 Responses to “War criminals”
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koshembos December 13th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
This is another example of history of lies and deliberate ignorance many nations go through. We perform a genocide on Native American and have hardly apologies way after the fact.
The Belgian did similar deeds in the Kongo at the end of the 19th century and these events never appeared in Belgian textbook.
The Japanese, Austrian, French and the English ignore to this day participation in massive killing without ever coming clean.
It seems that war crimes don’t always matter much.
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@koshembos: yesterday, driving home from a visit with my mother, I heard this interview on All Things Considered with the author of a book about the U.S. massacre of Apaches in 1817. Apparently, combined forces from the U.S. and Mexico found an encampment of Apaches, including women and children, in a canyon and they stood on the rim and just mowed them down. A U.S. jury took 18 minutes to find everybody involved not guilty.
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