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Os E.U. não prosecute Bush
Sábado, julho 19o, 2008 Discuta este relatório nos forums de RINF > Bush, Cheney e Rumsfeld serão tentados nunca para crimes de guerra nos E.U. porque o país falta um consenso na tortura Os E.U. não prosecute Bush Por John McQuaid, guardian.co.uk A evidência está montando que oficiais superiores dos E.U. - including o presidente George Bush, o vice-presidente Dick Cheney e a secretária anterior Donald Rumsfeld da defesa - crimes de guerra cometidos autorizando o uso “da tortura realçada do IE das técnicas da interrogação” -. O drumbeat dos crimes de guerra acelerou com a liberação recente de dois livros: O lado escuro de Jane Mayer novo do escritor de Yorker e a equipe da tortura das areias de Philippe, que documentam a tomada de decisão executiva isso conduziram aos E.U. para reservar não apenas as convenções de Genebra, mas a uma tradição do respeito para as direitas humanas dos prisioneiros inimigos esses datas à parte traseira à proibição de George Washington em prejudicar POWs. Os oficiais atuais e anteriores de Bush scrambling agora para evitar o opprobrium - para não mencionar o risco do tempo da prisão que resultaria do prosecution criminal. Esta semana, monte de Capitol foi tratada ao espetáculo das areias e do Douglas Feith, um protege anterior de Rumsfeld que fosse um arquiteto da invasão de Iraq, testifying de lado a lado antes de uma subcomissão da casa. Em uma entrevista mais adiantada com areias, Feith reivindicou ser “realmente um jogador” na engenharia de workarounds legais às convenções de Genebra em Guantánamo. Antes do comitê, Feith declarou sua sustentação unerring para Genebra. O córrego do commentary neste tópico está encerando enquanto nós aproximamos o fim do presidency de Bush. O columnist Nicholas Kristof dos tempos de New York foi seus pundits um do companheiro mais melhor, sugerir que o que os E.U. necessitam é um Commission sul da verdade e do Reconciliation do África-estilo a classificar com não apenas os transgressions legais dos oito anos passados, mas as manipulações políticas também. Cair em um momento. Não há nenhuma maneira que Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld ou o segundo e os enablers do terceiro-tier da tortura - o Feiths e o John Yoos - prosecuted para crimes de guerra nos Estados Unidos. O obstáculo aos prosecutions é a ausência de um consenso nacional na introdução específica da tortura, ou, mais geralmente, as ações de administração de Bush no 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.