dreamdancer 0 #26 May 15, 2009 Quote Quote Quote And no, Bush or Chaney will not be at the ICC. I know it's a wet dream for you, but reality is in the awake zone. it'll take a while (twenty or thirty years perhaps) but if the us doesn't prosecute them then the icc will LOL - Chaney will be dead in 20 years, while Bush will still be relaxing in Crawford, smoking a joint (See Harold and Kumar). Only loser nations let their leaders get tried. The closest we've seen were some attempts on Nixon/Kissinger, but these are guys that were remarkably (and unjustifiably) well regarded in the US in recent time. cheney is unlikely to last but many of the other players will still be around. and i wouldn't call you a loser nation - just be nice to china and you should be fine stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dreamdancer 0 #27 May 16, 2009 QuoteAs the Obama administration continues to fight the release of some 2,000 photos that graphically document U.S. military abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan, an ongoing Spanish investigation is adding harrowing details to the ever-emerging portrait of the torture inside and outside Guantánamo. Among them: "blows to [the] testicles;" "detention underground in total darkness for three weeks with deprivation of food and sleep;" being "inoculated … through injection with 'a disease for dog cysts;'" the smearing of feces on prisoners; and waterboarding. The torture, according to the Spanish investigation, all occurred "under the authority of American military personnel" and was sometimes conducted in the presence of medical professionals. More significantly, however, the investigation could for the first time place an intense focus on a notorious, but seldom discussed, thug squad deployed by the U.S. military to retaliate with excessive violence to the slightest resistance by prisoners at Guantánamo. The force is officially known as the the Immediate Reaction Force or Emergency Reaction Force, but inside the walls of Guantánamo, it is known to the prisoners as the Extreme Repression Force. Despite President Barack Obama's publicized pledge to close the prison camp and end torture -- and analysis from human rights lawyers who call these forces' actions illegal -- IRFs remain very much active at Guantánamo. Clive Stafford Smith, who has represented 50 Guantánamo prisoners, including 31 still imprisoned there, has seen the IRF teams up close. "They're goons," he says. "They've played a huge role." http://www.alternet.org/rights/140022/little_known_military_thug_squad_still_brutalizing_prisoners_at_gitmo_under_obama/stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites