"Arresting Bush and Cheney for war crimes will honor our oath to the Constitution," vets say.

9-23-2008

11 AM Yesterday, A Snippet:

The increasing erosion of our constitutions, civil rights and democracies as they are being gradually subjugated by Authoritarian Security Surveillance States. The bloating no-fly lists and terrorist watch-lists. The continuing inhumane and barbaric renditions, "enhanced interrogations" and indefinite detentions - of children, teenagers and adults alike. The continuing standing of Military Commissions, which are nothing more than politically-driven, rigged, kangaroo courts. The seemingly unending wars of choice and occupation in Afghanistan and Iraq - both based on lies to justify a vengeance operation for 9/11 and the securing of foreign oil resources. The ever mounting toll of civilian deaths, displaced refugees and soldier casualties.

This is the overall state of things today with regards to our so-called "Western civilization" - especially with regards to the U.S.A., the U.K. and Canada.

What Johnathan Turley says, with heavy heart and disbelief we've gone this far as a Country, should be brought into public discussion and possible implementation, as our Representatives seem to be hell bent on going along with the administrations shredding of the Constitution and the Laws of this Country!

This is not only about crimes that might have been committed by the administration and others, In Our Names, this is about the possible destruction of our Constitution and Moral Standing as a Democracy, by our highest leaders and our representatives as well as others we employ that work for and under the Laws that we as a Nation demand be followed by all and condemn others for breaking the International Laws we helped establish.

The five year American occupation of Iraq has been a glorious success... according to Dick Cheney.

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday declared the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq a "successful endeavor", pointing to security and political progress on a visit ahead of the fifth anniversary of the war.

"If you look back on those five years it has been a difficult, challenging but nonetheless successful endeavor ... and it has been well worth the effort," he told a news conference in Baghdad after meeting Iraqi leaders.

Oh really? Let's take a look at some recent developments in our "successful endeavor," shall we?

Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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And our plan to nuke Iran is shaping up nicely too.

Crossposted from the Recommended List @ Daily Kos

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire

Consider this the natural follow-up to the recent release of The Black Sites, the detailed report about CIA "interrogation" (torture).

Nat Hentoff at Village Voice has an article based on an allegedly leaked report from the Red Cross which implicates Team Bush in war crimes.

I suppose the news is the news here: the fact it's now at least at the Village Voice level. It's continuing to be discussed, but I cannot find the "report" that Hentoff describes anywhere on the internet for the moment. His work is fueling a lot of other blog postings but I see no Old Media Cartel postings.

His is a lengthy article and I am only going to select a couple salient "grafs" for recommending the article and for discussion here.

After the jump.

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‘Just War’, the Predicates and Precedents of Nuremberg and the Iraq War -"

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