UK Attorney General Warns US On Torture Billl

[kpete]

Attorney general warns US on torture bill

Clare Dyer
Monday September 18, 2006
The Guardian


The attorney general warned the US at the weekend that its bill to try to limit its obligations under the Geneva convention while interrogating and trying detainees risked international condemnation.

Lord Goldsmith waded into the row after a Senate committee rejected the bill and backed alternative legislation proposed by Republican senator John McCain and supported by George Bush's former secretary of state, Colin Powell.

The attorney general's comments, in a lecture to lawyers in Chicago, signal an attempt by Britain to bring the US back in line with international law. The bill follows a US supreme court ruling that the Geneva convention's prohibitions on torture apply to al-Qaida members, which the Bush administration had denied.

Lord Goldsmith said he had thought hard about whether to interfere in a "live, and sensitive, domestic political debate". But the issue was not purely domestic. "This is an international standard of very considerable importance and its content must be the same for all nations."

more at:
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,1874783,00.html

[NOLADEM]

1. International Condemnation, eh?

Bushco gets a hard on from international condemnation.

Ya know, this probably seals it for em.

Pigs.

It is so fucking cowardly to destroy our country because Repubes are unimaginative, cowardly, opportunistic chickenhawks.

[ninkasi]

5. That's what I've always thought

Nothing makes the little twit more stubborn than having people oppose him. He digs in his heels, and thrusts that simian jaw out, and dares people to make him do it. The idiot is going to destroy our country, just as you said. His rubber stamp Republicans will cave in, and do his bidding, just like always.

[CatWoman]

2. Oh shut the fuck up, Torquemada

:nuke:

[rurallib]

3. Like Bush cares. Lord Goldsmith you are now an enemy combatant

[Bucky]

4. "Lord Goldsmith", eh? That sounds kinda French to me. Like a commie.

Puny humans... Bush smash!

heh. check out the request - image is from Photobucket

[LynnTheDem]

6. You're a nation that condones torturing people...

or you aren't.

There is no "torture some" option.

[Greeby]

7. Lest we forget

The senior commanders of Her Majesty's Armed Forces were all set to refuse to take part in this war, unless this shithell said it would be legal. Because we are signed up to the ICC. And after arm-twisting by Bushco lawyers, he gave them the lie that it was.

[spanone]

8. Natalie Maines had the rat-bastard nailed years ago. I am also ashamed.

I'm ashamed of the face he is putting on our nation.