Rumsfeld Knew His Guys Were Torturing People to Death, Which Is a Serious Crime

[babsbunny]

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/126904/

By Stephen Pizzo, News for Real. Posted February 13, 2009.

71% of Americans want to see Bush investigated, and it's about time Obama's team hightailed their way over to court to start doing it.



During the Bush years Americans the boogeyman used to keep Americans cowed was the real or imagined threat of imminent terrorist attack.

Now we have a new president – and we have a new boogeyman – the economic meltdown. .

Now don't get me wrong. Anyone who's read this column over the past few years knows I've been Chicken Littling about the financial house of cards for a long time. And, now that it's finally collapsed, it's even worse than I predicted, and getting worse by the day.

Which is why Obama and his team are on the tube night and day talking about nothing else -- as if Americans are concerned about nothing, which isn't true.

[Optical.Catalyst]

1. We need to get Don Rumsfeld under oath before Congress

Then we start asking him questions about Kellogg Brown Root contracts in Iraq and how Saddam Hussein obtained the chemical weapons used in the 1988 Halabja poison gas attacks.

Rumsfeld is dirty, and he has been dirty for a long time. He needs to be in Leavenworth prison.

[boobooday]

2. Prosecute! Bring them to justice!

So we can hold our heads up as Americans.

[ThomWV]

3. A death occuring during or as a result from interrogation is the proof of torture

at a level sufficient to make the people who did it and approved it war criminals. Its straight forward. You authorize a procedure to interrogate prisoners taken during time of war, you are a signatory to treaties making it a war crime to torture, it is carried out, a person dies as a result of its application, you are a war criminal.