George Warcriminal Bush Authorized Torture in Writing
Formerly secret White House documents have revealed the fact that George Warcriminal Bush authorized the brutal form of torture called waterboarding in a written memo to CIA chief George Tenet in 2003. This should come as no great surprise to anyone, as former Bush White House lawyer and then later Attorney General Alberto "Torture Time" Gonzales had ordered up legal opinions pretending to justify this horrible crime.
Previously the United States of America has signed international treaties which explicitly outlaw this barbaric and disgusting practice.
Remember, the reason we are opposed to the bad guys is because the bad guys do bad things, like torturing people. If torturing people is bad when our enemies do it, it is still bad if we do it. It is also a well known fact that torture produces bad intelligence, when a criminal interrogator starts using immoral, unethical, and illegal techniques like torture their victim quickly decides to say whatever they think will get the torture to stop.
Once the filth currently disgracing the White House is gone, it would be good for our country if the criminals that have been tearing down the morality of this country were brought to justice. Not that this is likely to happen, but it certainly would be therapeutic for our national psyche and our reputation in the world.
Torturing prisoners is a war crime. The US Government prosecuted Japanese officers after World War II for torturing US prisoners using the very same exact waterboarding torture authorized by Our Glorious Christian Leader. Torture was illegal then, and since then the US has ratified a number of additional treaties against torture. In 1994 the US Congress ratified the UN Convention Against Torture. According to the US Constitution, when the Congress ratifies an international treaty that treaty becomes US law.
Among the war crimes of which George Warcriminal Bush is undeniably guilty is the illegal act of deporting persons to another country so that they may be tortured. The CIA, acting on orders from George Warcriminal Bush, has practiced rendition for torture on literally hundreds of victims of the US torture program.
George Warcriminal Bush also committed a war crime when he conspired with his cabinet to fool the American people into an unprovoked war of aggression based on a pack of lies. The Bush cabinet conspired to lie to the American people about Weapons of Mass Destruction they knew perfectly well did not exist. Their goal was to start a war of aggression against an innocent nation.
Conspiracy:
- a secret agreement between two or more people to perform an unlawful act
- a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot)
- a group of conspirators banded together to achieve some harmful or illegal purpose
Conspiracies to start a war are specifically defined as war crimes in the Nuremberg Principles, Article 6, a document primarily influenced by the US government after World War II.
Principle VI
The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under international law:
(a) Crimes against peace:
(i) Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;
(ii) Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).
(b) War Crimes:
Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation of slave labor or for any other purpose of the civilian population of or in occupied territory; murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the Seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.
(c) Crimes against humanity:
Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.
There has never been a US President as horrible and as determined to do great harm as George Warcriminal Bush. He is the worst thing to happen to the United States since Pearl Harbor. We rebuke him and all of his evil faith-based deeds. Plus Jesus thinks he's a jerk.
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