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Les USA ne poursuivront pas Bush
Samedi 19 juillet 2008 Discutez ce rapport dans les forum de RINF > Bush, Cheney et Rumsfeld ne seront jamais essayés pour des crimes de guerre aux USA parce que le pays manque d'un consensus sur la torture Les USA ne poursuivront pas Bush Par John McQuaid, guardian.co.uk L'évidence monte que les fonctionnaires des USA - comprenant le Président George Bush, vice-président Dick Cheney et ancien secrétaire Donald Rumsfeld de la défense - des crimes de guerre commis en autorisant l'utilisation de la torture « augmentée d'IE de techniques d'interrogation » -. Le battement de tambour de crimes de guerre a accéléré avec le dégagement récent de deux livres : Nouveau le côté en noir de Jane Mayer d'auteur de Yorker et l'équipe de la torture des sables de Philippe, qui documente la prise de décision exécutive cela ont mené les USA pour mettre de côté pas simplement les conventions de Genève, mais une tradition de respect pour les droits de l'homme des prisonniers ennemis cette date à de nouveau à la prohibition de George Washington sur nuire à des prisonniers de guerre. Les fonctionnaires courants et anciens de Bush brouillent maintenant pour éviter l'opprobre - pour ne pas mentionner le risque de temps de prison que résulterait de la poursuite criminelle. Cette semaine, Capitol Hill a été traitée au spectacle des sables et de la Douglas Feith, un ancien protégé de Rumsfeld qui était un architecte de l'invasion de l'Irak, témoignant côte à côte devant un sous-comité de Chambre. Dans une entrevue plus tôt avec des sables, Feith a prétendu être « vraiment un joueur » dans la technologie des workarounds légaux aux conventions de Genève chez Guantánamo. Devant le comité, Feith a déclaré son soutien infaillible de Genève. Le jet du commentaire sur cette matière cire pendant que nous nous approchons de la fin de la présidence de Bush. Le chroniqueur Nicholas Kristof de temps de New York est allé ses pandits un de camarade mieux, proposer que de ce que les USA aient besoin est une Commission du sud de vérité et de réconciliation d'Afrique-modèle à assortir par pas simplement les transgressions légales des huit dernières années, mais les manipulations politiques aussi bien. Coup un moment. Il n'y a aucune manière que Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld ou la seconde et les enablers de troisième-rangée de la torture - le Feiths et le John Yoos - seront poursuivi pour des crimes de guerre aux Etats-Unis. L'obstacle aux poursuites est l'absence d'un consensus national sur la question spécifique de la torture, ou, plus généralement, les actions d'administration de Bush sur la terreur. 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.