There is clear legal precedent to try and execute Dick Cheney, GW Bush, Condoleezza Rice et al
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
We’re slow around here so have something someone else wrote. It’s not funny but it does cite sources. Won’t that be nice for a change?
Guest Post: Cheney Admits to Being War Criminal
In the real world…
- Torture doesn’t work in providing information which will keep us safe
- Torture actually reduces our national security
- Most of those tortured were innocent
- Torture has been used throughout history as a form of intimidation, to terrorize people into obedience, not for gathering information
- The type of torture used by the U.S. in the last 10 years is of a special type. Senator Levin revealed that the U.S. used torture techniques aimed at extracting false confessions (see this, this, this, this. and this)
Unfortunately, Cheney is not alone.
Guest Post: Cheney Admits to Being War Criminal
And we did learn something. George Washington is once again shown to be one of two or three presidents who shouldn’t be reconstituted and shot — Torture Is Not a Partisan Issue … George Washington – Who Was Neither a Democrat or Republican – Forbid All Torture (upon pain of death).
