The United States committed war crimes when they tortured prisoners of war and Iraqi civilian internees.<\/p>\n
Although it is common knowledge around the world and in America, it was President Obama who admitted\u00a0at a press conference that America tortured detainees after 9\/11.<\/p>\n
The President\u2019s remarks came\u00a0ahead of a soon-to-be-declassified Senate report about the CIA\u2019s \u201cenhanced interrogation program\u201d, a nicer way of saying “torture”.<\/p>\n
In speaking about the CIA, the President said, \u201cWe tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values. A lot of those folks were working hard and under enormous pressure, and are real patriots. But having said all that, we did some things that were wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Why are these torturers not being prosecuted? Torture is a war crime; it does not matter if people were patriotic, afraid, angry, or following orders, torture remains a\u00a0criminal offence.<\/p>\n
Former vice-president and convicted war criminal Dick Cheney\u2019s daughter does not think torture is a violation of international law, and is furious at President Obama.<\/p>\n
Ms. Cheney has asserted that President Obama\u2019s statement about the Bush-Cheney torture program \u201cwas an amazing and stunning display of a president, a leader, a Commander in Chief who seems to take no responsibility for anything that\u2019s happened on his watch.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cheney is angry because her\u00a0father\u2019s culpability in ordering torture will be officially exposed in the upcoming Senate report. For the record, George W. Bush was president from 2001-2009. In 2002 Barack Obama served as an Illinois State Senator until 2005 when he was elected to the US Senate.<\/p>\n
President Obama included his own administration when he told\u00a0a press conference a while ago that \u201cwe\u201d tortured detainees.<\/p>\n
According to Liz Cheney, \u201cThis president is an utter disgrace. He\u2019s expending more time, more energy, more passion, more aggressive activity in targeting and going after patriots, heroes. CIA officers and others who kept is safe after 9\/11. He\u2019s lying about what they did, he\u2019s slandering them, he went to Cairo and did it in 2009. Today he did it from the podium of the Oval Office. It\u2019s a disgrace. It\u2019s despicable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another\u00a0report,\u00a0incidentally, concluded the Bush\/Cheney authorization of so-called \u2018enhanced interrogation techniques\u2019 of detainees in the wake of the 9\/11 attacks was ineffective and yielded no critical intelligence. It might actually be the best indication yet that these detainees had nothing to do with 9\/11.<\/p>\n
President Obama admitted indirectly that America tortured detainees in 2011 when he told reporters that despite Republican presidential candidates praising war criminals who tortured prisoners, he believed, like international humanitarian agencies and the world court, that water boarding is torture.<\/p>\n
In 2010 Dick Cheney admitted to authorizing torture, and just last March he told a sold-out crowd at American University he had no regrets and bragged that \u201cIf I would have to do it all over again, I would. The results speak for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cheney was lying, of course, and the Senate report will indeed say that the CIA torture was \u201cineffective and yielded no credible intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n
Liz Cheney, a proud lesbian, nevertheless insists on calling her father a “hero”.<\/p>\n
Cheney also said that despite being convicted of war crimes with Bush, Rumsfeld, and company, \u201cthe accusations he\u2019s a war criminal for using torture are not true.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Obama administration has failed to prosecute anyone associated with the torture program, even though\u00a0war crimes were\u00a0prosecuted with extreme prejudice after World War II by the United States.<\/p>\n
During war crime tribunals after World War II at The Hague, it was established that following orders was not a justification for torture.<\/p>\n
America lost whatever standing it had in the world after Bush launched a regime-changing war against Iraq which left the country in ruins.<\/p>\n
By throwing Bush, Cheney, and company under the bus, Obama and Democrats possibly hope to gain some of their lost moral standing and popularity after the Iraq disaster.<\/p>\n
A large body\u00a0of Democrats believe that while\u00a0the Bush-Cheney cabal have already been convicted of war crimes in absentia, and they need to be arrested, sent to The Hague, and prosecuted for war crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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