Gee, you mean Bush and company were lying about this, TOO?

[theweaselking]

Authorisation for torture, and specific instructions on what techniques to use, came out of meetings between Bush's top advisors and approved by Bush himself.

So, you've got YET MORE crimes against humanity, on the record. What does it take for an indictment, again?

Comments

[publius1.livejournal.com]

I'd have to say... the President leaving office, thus preventing him from being able to give everyone in the administration a blanket pardon. Oh, wait, he'll do that just before he leaves office, too. If this administration has done nothing for the past 8 years, it hs made clear taht provoking Constitutional crises mean nothing to it.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that issuing a pardon requires something to be pardoned FOR. Ex post facto goes both ways.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

And a US pardon doesn't cover ICC charges.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

But the U.S., as far as I know, doesn't currently submit to the ICC. It's a big point of international contention, isn't it?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Neither did Serbia or Germany. That didn't stop them from trying Slobadan Milosevic and Hermann Göring.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Is this really fair? Göring was convicted at the Nuremberg Trials; the ICC wasn't instituted until 2002. Milosevic was charged under a war tribunal specifically set up to prosecute war crimes in Yugoslavia. Can you realistically see a facsimile of either of these two things happening in the next 9 months?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

What I'm saying is that Bush can pardon anyone he wants, and the *civilised* word can still hang the whole lot of the bastards.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Can, but won't. Sigh.

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

The general consensus is none of them will be tried in the States, because a Republican government wouldn't and a Democratic one wouldn't watse all the time and energy and end up losing the next election. The only real chance is for someone to arrest and try them if they leave the country.

I think someone should, but it isn't likely.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

He can, like Ford, pardon them for any crimes committed in the act of executing orders of the President, between the dates of X and Y.

[city-of-dis.livejournal.com]

A blowjob would do the trick.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

As long as he doesn't lie about it, anyway.

[faolan-phe0nix.livejournal.com]

And he's contemplating boycotting the Opening Ceremonies for the Beijing China 2008 Olympics? Now that's funny.

[graethorne.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who used to write political sature. The current junta is so far gone he had to give up, because nothing he came up with was absurd enough to outpace the Bushies.