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США prosecute кустик
Воскресенье 19-ое июль 2008 Обсудите этот рапорт в форумах RINF > Кустик, Cheney и Rumsfeld никогда не будут попытаны для военных преступления в США потому что страна нуждается консенсусе на пытке США prosecute кустик Джон McQuaid, guardian.co.uk Доказательство устанавливает что верхние должностные лица США - включая президент Джордж Буш, vice-president Dickа Cheney и бывшюю секретаршю Дональд Rumsfeld обороны - порученные военные преступления путем утверждать пользу «увеличенной пытки ie методов расспрашивания» -. Drumbeat военных преступления ускоряло ход с недавним отпуском 2 книг: Нового сторона Джейн Mayer сочинителя Yorker темная и команда пыткой песков Philippe, которая документирует executive принятие решений то вели США для того чтобы set aside как раз Женевские конвенции, но традицию уважения для прав человека враждебных пленников тех даты к back to запрещению вашингтона Джордж на вредить POWs. В настоящее время и бывшие должностные лица кустика теперь карабкаются для избежания opprobrium - не упомянуть риск времени тюрьмы что привел к от уголовное преследование. Эта неделя, конгресс США была обработана к зрелищу песков и Дуглас Feith, бывшим protege Rumsfeld которое был архитектор нашествия Ирака, свидетельствуя side by side перед подкомитетом дома. В более предыдущем интервью с песками, Feith востребовало быть «реально игроком» в инженерстве законных workarounds к Женевским конвенциям на Guantánamo. Перед комитетом, Feith объявило его unerring поддержку для Geneva. Поток комментария на этой теме вощиет по мере того как мы почти конец президентства кустика. Обозреватель Николас Kristof Нью-Йорк Таймс пошел его pundits одно собрата более лучше, предлагать что США нужны южная комиссия правды и примиренности Африк-типа, котор нужно сортировать через как раз законные законопреступления прошлых 8 лет, только политические манипуляции также. Hang на моменте. Не будет дороги Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld или секунда и enablers трет-яруса пытки - Feiths и Джон Yoos - prosecuted для военных преступления в Соединенных Штатах. Препоной к prosecutions будет отсутствием национального консенсуса на специфически вопросе пытки, или, более вообще, действиями администрации кустика на терроре. 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.