Bush Admits to War Crimes

and wants the war crimes law to be updated and backdated so he doesnt get done by it!!

more info available at this link: http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1185.shtml

George W. Bush's speech on September 6 amounted to a public confession to criminal violations of the 1996 War Crimes Act. He implicitly admitted authorizing disappearances, extrajudicial imprisonment, torture, transporting prisoners between countries and denying the International Committee of the Red Cross access to prisoners.

These are all serious violations of the Geneva Conventions. The War Crimes Act makes grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions and all violations of Common Article 3 punishable by fines, imprisonment or, if death results to the victim, the death penalty.

At the same time, Bush asked Congress to amend the War Crimes Act in order to retroactively protect him and other U.S. officials from prosecution for these crimes, and from civil lawsuits arising from them. He justified this on the basis that "our military and intelligence personnel involved in capturing and questioning terrorists could now be at risk of prosecution under the War Crimes Act . . . ," and insisted that “passing this legislation ought to be the top priority” for Congress between now and the election in November.

Oh dear

yeah he also admited in an interview iraq had nothing to do with terrorists, was funny watching the dumbass look on his face when he realised what he had said

anyway hope this fucker frys

lol looks like the shit has hit the fan.. lets see if he can rig the geneva convention liked he rigged the election!

At least Clinton would say "I did not have criminal relations of war with that country - they had them with me!"

seriously though, I can't see this really changing much - wheels of war are already in motion..

Just shows how completely fucked up in the head Bush really is!

Congress shouldn't have the power to change international laws to protect an American. I'd like to see Bush ask an American soldier from WW2 who was tortured by the Japanese if the Geneva convention should be changed so that people were no longer protected.

He fucked up and is trying to change laws to stop his drunken, born-again Christian, Rumsfeld cum filled sorry arse being fried in a Texas prison!

Bush = today's Hitler

Lets just hope that he doesn't get his way... If the US can get the geneva conventions changed, then what is that telling the rest of the world? That the US can do anything they like and get away with it...

If they change the Geneva conventions, then what's going to be next?

well wont it just prove that the tenuous thread the world tries to abide by actually mean nothing therefore countries can do as they want without consequence?

anarchy..? anyone?

Anarchy is something the rabble do.

When the powers that be behave in such a way, it is their hegemonic right to act in self interest.

pah! symantics

the UN has no 'real' power.

and to think, australia also doesnt abide by the war crimes tribunal...!!!

the war crimes tribunal is a BIG DEAL people, even if as dimi says 'the un has no real power' there are enough pissed off nations in the world that when united...have a huge amount of influence.

I don't know much about US politics or how many republicans (thats the mob bush is with innit?) there are in power, but isn't there enough people in US congress to say no to this law and have it rejected?

He doesn't have full control of all houses of parliament like johnny does, does he?

Agree with a lot that has been said in this thread - the UN is useless in a world where pretty much anyone can do whatever they please at any time.

I hope bush loses the next election - the man is clearly insane & what's worse is that john howard is clearly smitten with him. Wrapped around his little finger.

bush cant run for office again, 2 term max in US politics

This post has been edited by Dimitri: Sep 13 2006, 02:21 PM

US presidents can only serve 2 terms. This is his last term, so it's not so much a matter of him getting voted in. He wants the laws changed so that when his term runs out he can not be trialed in the same way as Saddam.

thanks everyone - GOOD (on him not being able to run again)

but my other question still remains - does he have a clear majority in congress like howard does in our 2 houses of parliament?

aka, whats the likelyhood of this getting up and the war crimes laws being changed?

Lol, i hope him and all his buddies fry the stupid fucks.

Someone must be threatening him internally hmm

Pretty brave to try and use the 'oh but ur safer now coz of that, yeh your safer' .. shows how much he thinks of the US Public's intelligence.

This post has been edited by Parallex: Sep 13 2006, 02:42 PM

One Vote away

This will open your eyes

not sure myself but maybe he wants the dates of when those laws become valid in the USA.. a country can choose to ignore the laws if it wants.. or addopt them

just a guess