رئيس تالية سوفت أمرت تحقيق من [بوش-شني] إستعمال التعذيب
ب [روسا] [برووكس], [لوس نجلس] أوقات | حتّى حرب يتلقّى مجرمات [فن كلوب]. في يوم الثلاثاء, 15,000 احتجّ الناس في بلغراد, صربيا, الإنتقال من يتّهم حرب [ردوفن] إجراميّة [كردزيك] إلى المحكمة دوليّة إجراميّة في [ث هغ]. [كردزيك] ورّطت في تعذيب, عمليّة اغتصاب, جريمة قتل وإبادة جماعيّة, غير أنّ إلى بعض [سلف-ستلد] [سربين] وطنيات, هذا تفاصيل مجرّدة.
" [ردوفن] طويلة حيّة!" أنشد المعترضات.
تساءل ل ال كثير أمريكيات الذي قرأ من [كردزيك] إعتقال غير أنّ," نعم, عظيمة - وعندما أردت جورج [و.]. يواجه بوش وديك [شني] محاكمة لجريمة حرب?" هذا شيء أن يحافظ في عقل. [كردزيك] كان الزعيمة من صغيرة, [أونركنيزد] [روغ] جمهورية ويرأس على إبادة جماعيّة - غير أنّ تجنّب هو عدل لأكثر من عقد وبعد يحافظ مخلصة مروحة قاعدة.
بوش و [شني] الزعيمات من الدولة قوّيّة أكثر في العالم, وليس جرومهم [, ثوو] فضيع, على ال نفسه مستوى بما أنّ [كردزيك]' [س.]. (ما لم - [أهم] - أنت تعدّ العراق حرب, على ال" كان هو كلّ نسيج الأوضاع" نظرية. غير أنّ [فور ث سك وف] الحجة, [لت'س] أعطيتهم الفائدة من الشك.) لذلك لا أحد سوفت كنت فاجأت أنّ هناك بعد بوش [فن كلوب] (وإن كان صغيرة واحدة) أو أنّ التوقعات من إجراءات إجراميّة ضدّ الرئيس وتابعاته في الواقع غير موجود.
هو ليس أنّ بوش, [شني] و [ك.]. لا يستحقّ أن ينهي فوق في الحوض سفينة. يتقاعد جيش [مج]. [جن.]. استنتج [أنتونيو] [تغبا], الذي كان انتدبت بالبانتاغون في 2004 أن يتحرّى الأسواء في أبو [غريب], مؤخّرا أنّ" ال [كمّندر ين شف] وأنّ تحت ه فوّض نظامة نظاميّة تعذيب. . . . حكومة أذعت سياسة كان إلى المجال [وهربي] ال [جنفا كنفنأيشن] والرمز متّسقة من عدل عسكريّة كان تغاضيت. . . . هناك [نو لونجر] أيّ شك [أس تو وهثر] قد ارتكب الإدارة حاليّة جريمة حرب."
التكلفة إنسانيّة من أنّ جرائم? هو يستعصي أن يقول ل يوقن, يعطي الإدارة ميل لسرية (مفهومة, لأنّ الرئيس كان حذّرت [أس رلي س] يناير - كانون الثّاني 2002 من" التهديد من مقاضاة محلّية إجراميّة تحت الجريمة حرب عمل" ب ه [ثن-شف] إستشارة, [ألبرتو] غونزالس). But when the nongovernmental Detainee Abuse and Accountability Project examined thousands of pages of internal government records, it documented more than 330 cases ”in which U.S. military and civilian personnel are credibly alleged to have abused or killed detainees” at ”U.S. facilities throughout Afghanistan, Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay.”
A McClatchy Newspaper Group report released a few weeks ago came to a similar conclusion, finding that brutal mistreatment of prisoners was routine in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo, even though in many cases the abused detainees had no ties to al-Qaida.
Did all this violate U.S. and international law? You betcha. The U.S. is party to the U.N. Convention Against Torture, and torture is also a federal crime. At the time most of the abuses were committed, the War Crimes Act also criminalized violations of Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits ”cruel treatment and torture (and) outrages upon personal dignity.” And under the doctrine of ”command responsibility,” senior civilian and military leaders could all face criminal liability for authorizing or tolerating the abuses.
But don’t hold your breath. As far back as 2001, administration lawyers were crafting legal opinions designed to shelter their bosses from any future criminal liability, and much evidence has since been hidden and destroyed. Then in 2006, the GOP-dominated Congress amended the War Crimes Act - with retroactive effect - to make future prosecutions almost impossible.
In any case, neither Democrats nor Republicans have the stomach for criminal proceedings against high-ranking current or former officials who still retain substantial public support. Meanwhile, no international tribunal is ever likely to have jurisdiction over the U.S. participants involved in the abuses.
But that doesn’t mean we should give up on accountability. John McCain and Barack Obama should be urged to establish a high-level, nonpartisan ”truth commission” with robust subpoena powers early in 2009. That commission should investigate, hold hearings and issue a public report on responsibility for torture, war crimes and other abuses committed during the Bush administration.
Such a panel wouldn’t satisfy those who’d like to see Bush and Cheney in prison garb, but it would be a major step toward undoing the damage the administration did to our reputation as a nation committed to human rights. And as more incriminating details come out - and they will - some Bush-Cheney fan club members might even turn in their membership cards.
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* ROSA BROOKS is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.
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In the very first minutes of Barack’s presidency, he should rejoin the International Criminal Court. Let the world bring the war crimes charges … that way, this criminal Administration won’t be able to use the USA laws they’ve corrupted to avoid being judged & held to account. No matter how they’ve perverted our system of justice here, there can be no denying the more than ample evidence that BushCo has broken international laws & treaties surely within in the jurisdiction of the ICC to prosecute.