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Fort Lewis 5: War Crimes or Another Example of the Military Justice System
2010-09-28 12:24:00 The case of five (main defendants, with seven more charged and potentially even more on the way) soldiers from the 5th Stryker Brigade charged with murdering Afghans for sport is one of those stories that, unfortunately, has all the elements of a blockbuster media hit: drugs, violence, grisly "factual details," betrayal, and even the alleged hoarding of "souvenirs" related to the killings. If the media reports are to be believed, there was a whole group of drugged-up modern-day Ed Geins running around Afghanistan, acting like serial killers and carrying around pieces of people as casually as most of us carry a pack of gum. The media frenzy is almost as bloodthirsty as the alleged "facts" of the case. They can't get enough of it. It would seem that the only thing that sells better than sex lately is the idea of American troops gone wild.
By: Euphoric Reality
Above The Law: Former Veep, Richard ?Dick? Cheney Admits To Committing Mult
2010-02-17 02:33:00 Where Are The Feds And Why Haven’t They Arrested Dick Cheney Yet? Okay, we all know — or at least, those of us who don’t have our heads stuck in that Senate “Partisanville” the Democratic Senator from Indiana, Evan Bayh has chosen to abandon at the end of his current... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
War crimes: providing the means
2009-07-10 16:50:00 ?People or companies that conduct (international) trade... in weapons or raw materials used for their production, should be warned that ? if they do not exercise increased vigilance ? they can become involved in most serious criminal offences. It should be made clear to them that they will face prosecution and long-term prison sentences...?Court of Appeal The Hague, Judgment, 9 May 2007 Earlier this month, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands upheld the conviction of a Dutch businessman, Frans van Anraat, for being an accessory to war crimes committed by the Iraqi regime in the 1980s. It thereby confirmed in most regards a 2007 judgment by the Court of Appeal in The Hague, which had found Van Anraat guilty of being an accessory to a violation of the laws and customs of war for having 'intentionally provided the opportunity and means' for attacks with mustard gas carried out in 1987 and 1988. Between 1980 and 1988, Van Anraat had supplied Saddam Hussein's regime with at least 1...
Children as Unlamented Victims of Bush?s War Crimes
2009-05-09 10:05:00 By Michael HaasSimulposted with Information Clearing HouseMay 01, 2009 -- -- Torture has received the most attention among the many war crimes of the Bush administration. But those who support Bush?s pursuit of the ?war on terror? have not been impressed by recriminations over torture. Worse than torture are the murders of at least 50 prisoners in Abu Ghraib, Afghanistan, and Guantánamo, but again the hard-hearted are unimpressed when those whom they perceive as terrorists receive illegal extrajudicial capital punishment.The case for abusing children, however, is more difficult to support. The best kept secret of the Bush?s war crimes is that thousands of children have been imprisoned, tortured, and otherwise denied rights under the Geneva Conventions and related international agreements. Yet both Congress and the media have strangely failed to identify the very existence of child prisoners as a war crime. In the Islamic world, however, there is no such silence. Indeed, the prophet ...
OOPS: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Should Have Joined ?Shotgun? Cheney In Shr
2009-05-08 03:44:00 New Intelligence Report: Nancy Legosi Was An Active Participant In The Cheney-Bush Torture “Program” Just yesterday, we learned Dick “Shotgun” Cheney “The Sleeping Veep” had shredded an administration lawyer’s memo to the effect of “This torture stuff... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Spain Goes After Former AG Alberto Gonzales And Former Justice Department L
2009-03-29 04:53:00 “Just Don’t Leave U.S. Soil And You’ll Be Okay” Say Legal Experts To Yoo, Gonzales, And Others Under Spain’s Microscope For Their “Creative” Works In Guantanamo Bay “I want these terr’ists tortured“, demanded then President Bush. Dick... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Consensus to Investigate George Bush Reaching Critical Mass
2009-02-11 08:26:00 In view of a growing chorus of powerful law makers calling for an official investigation of the Bush administration, you have to wonder how many members of the prior administration have made sure their blackberry?s were updated to include voice dial for criminal defense attorneys. While some civil libertarians expressed disappointment over the administration?s reluctance to ...
Judge grants Obama request to suspend Gitmo trial
2009-01-21 17:30:00 Judge grants Obama request to suspend Gitmo trial GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - A judge on Wednesday quickly granted President Barack Obama’s request to suspend the war crimes trial of a young Canadian in what may be the beginning of the end for the Bush administration’s system of trying alleged terrorists. The judge, Army ...
By: TexasFred's
Judicial Committee Chairman John Conyers Seeks To Launch 9/11 Commission Ty
2009-01-13 22:41:00 President-Elect Obama On New Congressional Legislation: I Have Not Yet Decided To Endorse This Action; Nobody Is Above The Law As most folks know by now, I highly disagree with one of our Founding Fathers, Ben Franklin, who once was heard to have said “Those who sacrifice their liberty for... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Two More Army Soldiers Charged With War Crimes
2008-12-16 06:57:00 Captain Roger Hill and his first sergeant, Tommy Scott, are the two latest victims of the military justice system. They are charged with war crimes, dereliction of duty, and more after an incident where the government says Afghan detainees were abused. Let’s look at the government’s version of “abuse”: Members of his unit allegedly slapped Afghan ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Two More Army Soldiers Charged With War Crimes
2008-12-16 06:57:00 Captain Roger Hill and his first sergeant, Tommy Scott, are the two latest victims of the military justice system. They are charged with war crimes, dereliction of duty, and more after an incident where the government says Afghan detainees were abused. Let’s look at the government’s version of “abuse”: Members of his unit allegedly slapped Afghan ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Two More Army Soldiers Charged With War Crimes
2008-12-16 06:57:00 Captain Roger Hill and his first sergeant, Tommy Scott, are the two latest victims of the military justice system. They are charged with war crimes, dereliction of duty, and more after an incident where the government says Afghan detainees were abused. Let’s look at the government’s version of “abuse”: Members of his unit allegedly slapped Afghan ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Two More Army Soldiers Charged With War Crimes
2008-12-16 06:57:00 Captain Roger Hill and his first sergeant, Tommy Scott, are the two latest victims of the military justice system. They are charged with war crimes, dereliction of duty, and more after an incident where the government says Afghan detainees were abused. Let’s look at the government’s version of “abuse”: Members of his unit allegedly slapped Afghan ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Indicted: Lame Duck Veep Dick ?Shotgun? Cheney And His Accomplice, Former A
2008-11-19 03:11:00 Texas Jury Speaks: Shotgun And Alberto Indicted For Abusing American Federal Prisoners Any bets these two criminals earn a pardon from their “head honcho”, President Bush, before it’s all said and done with? A South Texas jury, according to The Associated Press (Source: Houston... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
Bush Pardons Himself For War Crimes
2008-10-30 04:41:00 I SURE HOPE THIS IS NOT A JOKE: Bush Pardons Himself and His Cabinet For War Crimes I’ll wait for verification before I go any further.
New Book Alleges Bush Administration Intentionally Forged Documents, Ignore
2008-08-05 17:16:00 Is Scott McClellan At It Again? Nope — This Time It’s Ron Suskind With A Littany Of Allegations Against President Bush And His Administration Another “shocker” —... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the latest rantings of a gun toting liberal with a chip on his shoulder... harsh views, comments expressed.
War Crimes Criminal Radovan Karadzic Arrested in Serbia
2008-07-22 01:07:00 War crimes criminal Radovan Karadzic has been arrested in Serbia after being a fugitive for over a decade. He has been wanted for his ordered killings and genocide of tens of thousands of Bosnian Muslim men and boys while he was in power in the mid 90’s. In 1995, the International Criminal Tribunal for the ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "War Crimes Criminal Radovan Karadzic Arrested in Serbia", url: "http://bumpshack.com/2008/07/2-1/war-crimes-criminal-radovan-k-aradzic-arrested-in-serbia/" });
(Anti-)War Crimes
2008-07-07 22:00:00 By: Devvy Kidd July 7, 2008 My last column on The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, brought some very ugly email as well as one polite disagreement. Let’s look at what two Americans had to say about my column. Email one: “…withdraw from this heinous, unconstitutional war in Iraq (and Afghanistan).” When I read lines like ...
Gitmo Hearing For 9/11 Mastermind Begins
2008-06-05 20:55:00 The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, and his co-conspirators appeared today in a Gitmo courtroom for the start of their military tribunal. All five defendants face execution if found guilty. Mohammed told the court today that he welcomes death ...
By: The Hot Joints
War Crimes & Puzzle Pieces:Obama, McClellan, Rove, and Bush
2008-05-29 20:18:00 If anything, McClellan's book seems to be the effort not of a man trying to bolster his image, but rather trying to repair it. As press secretary, he was unaware and made to go out in front of the public time and time again to defend only half-truths and distorted information. They made a fool of him, they made fools of us all. read more | digg story [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
President Bush?s ?War Crimes? and Misdemeanors
2008-05-22 21:38:00 Sudhan @21:35 CET Robert Parry | Consortium News, May 22, 2008 Facing a tough reelection fight in 2004, George W. Bush expressed outrage over leaked photos showing U.S. military police at Iraq?s Abu Ghraib prison abusing detainees, who were paraded naked before female guards, threatened by attack dogs, chained in ?stress positions? and forced to wear ...
By: Suzie-Q
Video: Olbermann Unhinged, Accuses Bush Of ?War Crimes?
2008-05-15 17:10:00 One of the most despicable and unqualified people on cable news is MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. His angry, and hate-filled diatribes against President Bush and Republicans make him a favorite of the far-left. Twice as many people tune-in to watch Bill O’Reilly’s 3:00 AM repeat than watch Keith Olbermann in prime time if that’s any indication of ...
By: The Hot Joints
American and Israeli War Crimes: Same Atrocities, Different Responses
2008-05-03 11:35:00 Sudhan @11:35 CET Dave Lindorff | Common Dreams News Center, May 2, 2008 In the last few days, both the Israeli military and the US military have fired missiles into homes, in an effort to target what they said were terrorists, in the process killing many innocent civilians. But what a contrast we see in both the reporting ...
By: Suzie-Q
Former war crimes prosecutor alleges Kosovan army harvested organs from Ser
2008-04-22 15:16:00 Carla Del Ponte, the ex-chief prosecutor for war crimes in former Yugoslavia, has unleashed a storm of recrimination with allegations of a trade in human body parts in Kosovo and Albania after Nato bombed Serbia in 1999. Del Ponte claims, based on what she describes as credible reports and witnesses, that Kosovan Albanian guerrillas transported hundreds of Serbian prisoners into northern Albania where they were killed, and their organs "harvested" and trafficked out of Tirana airport. The Kosovan government, now headed by the former guerrilla leader Hashim Thaci, dismisses the claims as untrue, while Serbia and Russia are demanding a war crimes investigation into the allegations. Del Ponte, now a Swiss ambassador, has been ordered to keep silent by the Swiss government. The allegations are aired in Del Ponte's just published memoirs of her eight years as chief prosecutor for the international war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia, based in The Hague. The Hunt: Me and ...
By: Circle of 13
Fact or fiction: Should Bush administration be indicted for war crimes?
2008-04-16 11:33:00 From: 411 Politics Fact or Fiction 04.14.08: Week 85 4. This week, on Chris Matthew's show, in response to Matthews asking the question, "tell me something I don't know," blogger Andrew Sullivan of Atlantic.com said, "this man, these men [Bush and other high level administration officials] will be indicted for war crimes." Though we're not sure they will, this man, these men OUGHT to be tried for war crimes.Tom Head: FICTION. George W. Bush DESERVES to be indicted for war crimes, but I don't know whether he ought to be. We need to ask ourselves, first, who it is that would be doing the indicting. If it's a future Democratic administration, then it will be seen as a partisan attack writ large and will present no moral victory, even in the event of a conviction. If it's a future Republican administration, then independent counsel--which we do not currently have--would be necessary to ensure that the prosecution has any teeth. If it's an international human ...
By: Circle of 13
Bush pardons self from war crimes
2008-04-07 21:40:00 Liberty Central- Conservatism's Blog of Choice
Constitutional lawyer: Bush ?ordered war crimes?
2008-04-05 12:19:00 anthony @ 11:17 BST Nick Juliano | Raw Story | Friday, April 4, 2008 This week’s revelation of another secret Bush administration memo that seemed to eliminate any boundaries on the treatment of detainees added to the already substantial evidence that US military and intelligence interrogators have abused and perhaps even tortured prisoners rounded up during the ...
By: Suzie-Q
VIDEO: Law Professor: ?The President Ordered War Crimes?
2008-04-04 11:13:00 anthony @ 10:12 BST Says Bush Ran ‘Premeditated, Carefully Orchestrated Torture Program’ Constitutional Attorney Jonathon Turley Tells MSNBC Congress Refuses To Investigate Because They ‘Do Not Want to Deal With That Fact’ Jonathan Turley: It really is amazing because Congress, including the Democrats, have avoided any typed of investigation into torture because they do not want to deal with ...
By: Suzie-Q
Bush?s War Crimes
2008-03-30 21:29:00 Scott Horton has written about the Convention Against Torture and has described the use of torture at Abu Ghraib: Enforced nudity. This technique is adopted for purposes of degrading and humiliating the prisoner, heightening his senses of vulnerability, weakness and shame. Enforced nudity also enhances other techniques, particularly hypothermia. Starvation. As Davis notes, when the prisoner is ...
By: Liberal Values
News: US Soldiers Testify About War Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq
2008-03-18 21:21:00 Dozens of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans publicly testified this weekend about crimes they committed during the course of battle, many of which were prompted by the orders or policies laid down by superior officers. The weekend gathering, called the Winter Soldier Event demonstrated that well-publicized incidents of U.S. brutality, including the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the massacre of an entire family of Iraqis in the town of Haditha, are not isolated incidents perpetrated by "a few bad apples," as many politicians and military leaders have claimed. They are part of a pattern, the organizers said, of "an increasingly bloody occupation." One testimony:"Apr. 18, 2006 was the date of my first confirmed kill. He was innocent, I called him the fat man. He was walking back to his house and I killed him in front of his father and friend. My first shot made him scream and look into my eyes, so I looked at my friend and said, 'Well, I can't let that happen,' and shot him again. A...
Croats in Hague war crimes trial
2008-03-11 08:56:00 It is the first time Croatia's ex-generals will sit in the dockThree Croatian former generals are due to go on trial at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague in one of its most high-profile cases.
By: Get rich
Vets Break Silence on War Crimes
2008-02-29 09:34:00 Sudhan @09:35 CET U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are planning to descend on Washington from Mar. 13-16 to testify about war crimes they committed or personally witnessed in those countries. By Aaron Glantz | RINF.com, Feb. 29, 2008 ?The war in Iraq is not covered to its potential because of how dangerous it is ...
By: Suzie-Q
[Scary] U.S. charging Canadian child for war crimes in Guantanamo. This can
2008-02-05 06:13:00 Reuters
Iraq veterans say that war crimes are encouraged by command. [Digg]
2008-01-26 18:32:00 "The killing of innocent civilians is policy," veteran Mike Blake said. "It's unit policy and it's Army policy. It's not official policy, but it's what's happens on the ground everyday. It's what unit commanders individually encourage." "These decisions are coming from the top down," veteran Matt Howard said.
Iraq veterans say that war crimes are encouraged by command. [Digg]
2008-01-26 18:32:00 "The killing of innocent civilians is policy," veteran Mike Blake said. "It's unit policy and it's Army policy. It's not official policy, but it's what's happens on the ground everyday. It's what unit commanders individually encourage." "These decisions are coming from the top down," veteran Matt Howard said.
War crimes - "forget about it"
2008-01-21 14:07:00 I forgot, War crimes? Fuck em, me Bush, I am boss.
George Bush can pardon himself if charged with war crimes, CRAZY
2008-01-20 16:48:00 George Bush put into a bill around 9/11 the provision that he will be able to pardon himself of war crimes. Can you believe George Bush? This is amazing. I didn't think the story about pardoning war crimes was serious until I saw the CNN video on youtube. They specifically say George Bush can pardon himself and others of war crimes. CRAZY. Popular: 1 hours 41 minutes ago source: (pressthat.com)
By: CelebrityPWN
Liberian former President Charles Taylor faces an international war crimes
2008-01-07 15:50:00 I was just listening to a report of a man that had been victim of former President Charles Taylor’s policies. His right hand was chopped off and his story was just heartbreaking. More below… From BBC Mr Taylor - who is accused of trading weapons for diamonds - showed no emotion as the first witness, an expert on ...
By: Today's Talk
Taylor war crimes trial resumes
2008-01-07 09:35:00 Prosecutors say Charles Taylor provided guns for diamondsThe war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has resumed in The Hague after a six-month delay.
By: Get rich
War Crimes by the CIA and Bush Administration
2007-12-28 16:47:00 If you have not read the below article, take some time to read it now about the war crimes done by the CIA under the direction of the Bush Administration. Personal accountability has all but disappeared from the American political system. Bill Clinton lied to his entire cabinet about Monica Lewinsky and not a single cabinet ...
By: Today's Talk
Israeli Minister Fears UK Arrest for War Crimes
2007-12-13 23:18:00 From News.Yahoo.com, by AFP JERUSALEM - Israeli Public Security Minister Avi Dichter has cancelled a trip to Britain over concerns he could be arrested on war crimes allegations, his spokesman said on Thursday. “Minister Dichter has cancelled this trip following threats of him being arrested in Great Britain. This is an intolerable situation,” Barak Sari said. Dichter was ...
Nota Bene for 10 Dec 2007: Try Them for War Crimes
2007-12-10 23:06:00 We’re happy to revive a feature that’s been dormant way too long: Nota Bene, the Scholars & Rogues smorgasbord of yummy links from around the blogosphere. We’ve got must-reads, should’ve-reads, gotta-check-it-outs, omg’s, wtf’s, lol’s and so on. It’s like a Scrogue version of the famous Garbage Plate. So have a fork and bib handy and enjoy… “They must be tried for war crimes.” So say ArtOfMentalWarfare.com and NIN’s Trent Reznor, in a bold attempt to attract the attention of the We Don’t Give a Shit Generation … Behold the “five best new, grassroots progressive infrastructure projects in America,” courtesy contest winners at Open Left … A slew of Matt Taibbi pieces at Rolling Stone: On Mike Huckabee, our “favorite right-wing nut job“; how Bush allowed an army of greedheads to invade the Treasury; and the “fourth-rate buffoons” running for president on...
Ahamdinejad Wants to Form a ?World Islamic Court? For War Crimes
2007-12-05 20:22:00 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the West has too much power in the world bodies, so to counter that he wants to setup an International Islamic Court to prosecute war crimes and other human rights violators. It’s difficult not to find it amusing that a character like Ahmadinejad would suggest anything for trying war crimes considering ...
By: The Hot Joints
The Global Impact of Bush's War Crimes in Iraq: King Midas in Reverse
2007-11-27 08:38:00 by Walter C. Uhler Journalist Robert Fisk recently explained the Bush/Cheney abomination in the Middle East quite succinctly, when he asserted: "The world in the Middle East is growing darker and darker by the hour. Pakistan. Afghanistan. Iraq. "Palestine". Lebanon. From the borders of Hindu Kush to the Mediterranean, we - we Westerners that is - are creating (as I have said before) a hell disaster. Next week, we are supposed to believe in peace in Annapolis, between the colorless American apparatchik and Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister who has no more interest in a Palestinian state than his predecessor Ariel Sharon." [Robert Fisk, "Darkness falls on the Middle East," Independent.co.uk, 24 Nov. 2007] On Friday, November 23rd, a bomb exploded in a pet market in central Baghdad. It followed a "brazen attack against U.S.-backed Sunni fighters on the southern belt of Baghdad" and a mortar and rocket attack on the Green Z...
Serb accused at war crimes trial
2007-11-07 14:29:00 Vojislav Seselj surrendered to the ICTY in February 2003The Serbian ultra-nationalist leader, Vojislav Seselj, has been accused of inciting forces with 'poisonous ideas' at the start of his war crimes trial.
By: Get rich
Serb accused at war crimes trial
2007-11-07 14:29:00 Vojislav Seselj surrendered to the ICTY in February 2003The Serbian ultra-nationalist leader, Vojislav Seselj, has been accused of inciting forces with 'poisonous ideas' at the start of his war crimes trial.
By: Get rich
John Aschcroft Talks Telecom Immunity in Op-Ed
2007-11-05 15:32:00 Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has a very good Op-Ed in the NY Times today about immunity for telecom companies that cooperated on the War on Terror. The National Security Agency asked the various telecommunications companies in the U.S. for assistance in listening to terrorist phone calls. The Justice Department sent each company a letter assuring ...
By: The Hot Joints
Demand that Rumsfeld be charged with War Crimes
2007-10-26 18:37:00 CenterForConstitutionalRights Synopsis Fax or Call the French Prosecutor Jean Claude Marin and demand that he open a investigation, into Rumsfeld’s involvement in torture. Description There are charges for torture against Rumsfeld, France has ratified the UN Convention against torture. This morning was confirmed that Rumsfeld was presentin France and they have an obligation to prosecute or extradite alleged perpetrators of ...
By: Current Era Blog
Bush's Campaign of Lies to Conceal War Crimes
2007-10-12 12:16:00 by Walter C. Uhler During his recent, hour-long interview on Al-Arabiya TV, President Bush denied "the U.S. is gearing up to attack Iran" and dismissed as "'gossip' reports in the Arab press that he has issued orders to senior U.S. military officials to prepare for an attack on Iran at the end of January or in February." [AP, Arizona Daily Star, Oct. 6, 2007] He then added: "Evidently, there's a lot of gossip in parts of the country - world that try to scare people about me personally or my country or what we stand for." Gossip is it? Or has the Decider simply repressed or forgotten all the lies he told during the run-up to his illegal, immoral invasion and murderous occupation of Iraq? For example, has Bush simply repressed or forgotten his lie on December 28, 2001, when, after an extensive secret briefing by General Tommy Franks about a future invasion of Iraq, he told the press that his discussion with Franks focused on the Genera...
Turkey Threatens Repercussions for U.S.
2007-10-12 03:37:00 Turkey, which is a key supply route to U.S. troops in Iraq, recalled its ambassador to Washington on Thursday and warned of serious repercussions if Congress labels the killing of Armenians by Turks a century ago as genocide. Ordered after a House committee endorsed the genocide measure, the summons of the ambassador for consultations was a ...
By: The Hot Joints
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