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Los E.E.U.U. no procesarán Bush
Sábado 19 de julio de 2008 Discuta este informe en los foros de RINF > Bush, Cheney y Rumsfeld nunca serán intentados para los crímenes de guerra en los E.E.U.U. porque el país carece un consenso en tortura Los E.E.U.U. no procesarán Bush Por Juan McQuaid, guardian.co.uk La evidencia está montando que los funcionarios superiores de los E.E.U.U. - incluyendo presidente George Bush, vice presidente Dick Cheney y la secretaria anterior Donald Rumsfeld de la defensa - los crímenes de guerra confiados autorizando el uso “de la tortura realzada del IE de las técnicas de la interrogación” -. El drumbeat de los crímenes de guerra ha acelerado con el lanzamiento reciente de dos libros: El lado oscuro de Jane Mayer nuevo del escritor de Yorker y el equipo de la tortura de las arenas de Philippe, que documentan la toma de decisión ejecutiva eso condujeron los E.E.U.U. para poner no apenas a las convenciones de Ginebra a un lado, pero una tradición del respecto para los derechos humanos de los presos enemigos esos las fechas de nuevo a la prohibición de George Washington en dañar POWs. Los funcionarios actuales y anteriores de Bush ahora están revolviendo para evitar el opprobrium - para no mencionar el riesgo del tiempo de la prisión que resultaría del procesamiento criminal. Esta semana, Capitol Hill fue tratada al espectáculo de las arenas y de Douglas Feith, protege anterior de Rumsfeld que era arquitecto de la invasión de Iraq, atestiguando de lado a lado ante un subcomité de la casa. En una entrevista anterior con las arenas, Feith demandó ser “realmente un jugador” en la ingeniería de workarounds legales a las convenciones de Ginebra en Guantánamo. Ante el comité, Feith declaró su ayuda unerring para Ginebra. La corriente del comentario en este asunto está encerando mientras que acercamos al final de la presidencia de Bush. El columnista Nicholas Kristof de los tiempos de Nueva York fue sus pandit uno del compañero mejor, sugerir que qué los E.E.U.U. necesitan es una Comisión del sur de la verdad y de la reconciliación del África-estilo a clasificar con no apenas las transgresiones legales de los últimos ocho años, solamente las manipulaciones políticas también. Caída en un momento. No hay manera que Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld o el segundo y los enablers de la tercero-grada de la tortura - el Feiths y el Juan Yoos - serán procesados para los crímenes de guerra en los Estados Unidos. El obstáculo a los procesamientos es la ausencia de un consenso nacional en la aplicación específica la tortura, o, más generalmente, las acciones de la administración de Bush en terror. Certainly there is a consensus that the Bush administration has been a disaster and that the Iraq war was a mistake. But this doesn’t apply to specific terrorism policies, on which the White House still has more or less a political blank check to do as it pleases. (Whether a majority of the public supports those policies is debatable, but Republicans still back Bush, and Democrats are still cowed by the risk of appearing soft on the issue.) See Kevin Drum on why this is not Watergate: a well of political support remains for Bush’s terror policies, “enhanced interrogation” among them. The matter of criminal culpability lies several steps further on. Even if they concede that torture is a war crime and buy the practical arguments against it - that it generates false information, endangers US soldiers should they be taken prisoner and is disastrous for America’s image and diplomatic efforts - many Americans would still resist prosecuting officials whose motive was averting terror attacks. This also goes deeper than politics. I hate to sound cynical, but Americans don’t have much interest in accountability, truth or reconciliation. Our national motto is “move on”. The buzzword of the decade is Stephen Colbert’s “truthiness”. Trials or commissions on war crimes would force a reckoning that many Americans don’t think is necessary and/or would simply rather not have. However, those still hoping to see Bush and his associates in the dock might see promise in another feature of American culture: its disposability. What seems set in stone today, an immutable law of politics, almost certainly won’t be tomorrow. What once seemed an issue of high principle to many conservatives - embracing torture and defending Bush & Co - may quickly become passé once Bush leaves office and other issues come to dominate. The ideal condition for a successful prosecution is not a rising tide of outrage at Bush that would stoke the divisions in US society, but indifference. Still, the most likely scenario for a torture prosecution is something like what happened to ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. His own country wouldn’t touch him, but an industrious Spanish prosecutor - aided by the work of human rights activists and backed by international opinion - indicted him for torture and war crimes and nearly snared him. If Bush, Cheney or Rumsfeld faced a similar indictment from abroad, Americans would be outraged - but not really. The US government would try to head it off, but wouldn’t be able to do much. No one would actually go on trial, but the indictees would see their travel options humiliatingly curtailed and go to their graves knowing the phrase “charged with war crimes” will be next to their names in the history books. See More:USA NewsDiscuss this report in the RINF forums > Have Your Say: The US will not prosecute Bush This entry was posted on Saturday, July 19th, 2008 at 3:36 pm and is filed under Political News . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. |
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If Bush, Cheney or Rumsfeld were indicted from abroad, surely we could just grab them, put them on a plane, stop off at Diego Garcia for a spot of refuelling and then take them to the country as required. I was under the impression that this was an accepted method of transport for suspected criminals\enemies of the state.