youtube.com - 4/27/2009
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After the news broke of torture and humiliation of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, George Bush set up interviews to make the case that this was "few bad apples...
mudvillegazette.com - 5/1/2009
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The Washington Post reports that "the recent release
of Justice Department memos authorizing the use of harsh...
interrogation techniques" has given soldiers convicted of abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib "new reason to argue that they were made scapegoats for policies approved at high levels." ...
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Abu Ghraib Soldiers Appealing?
newshoggers.com - 4/24/2009
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newshoggers.com —
by Jay McDonough Twelve U.S. soldiers were convicted
for their crimes at Abu Ghraib prison in 2004....
Among the more notable are Specialist Charles Graner, found guilty of conspiracy to maltreat detainees, assault, and obstruction of justice. ...
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The straight line between Abu Ghraib and the torture memos
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Bush's Promise On Torture
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
From al Arabiya, after Abu Ghraib:
It's important for people to understand that in a democracy, there will be a full
investigation. In other words, we want to know the truth. In our
country, when there's an allegation of abuse ... there will be a full
investigation, and justice will be delivered.
... It's very important ...
Bush: Dictatorships Don't Investigate Torture - We Will
Library Grape —
Add this to the library of rank hypocrisy to bubble up from the Bush administration. Here was Bush speaking in an interview on al-Arabiya after the Bush-sanctioned horrors at Abu Ghraib became known: It's important for people to understand that in a democracy, there will be a full investigation. In other words, we want to know the truth. In our country, when there's an allegation of abuse ... there will be a full investigation, and justice will be delivered. ... It's very important for people and your listeners to understand that in our country, when an issue is brought to our attention on this magnitude, we act. And we act in a way in which ...
Bush Flashback: “War Crimes Will Be Prosecuted…It Will Be No Defense To Say, ‘I Was Just Following Orders’”
Think Progress —
Just before launching his invasion of Iraq, President Bush went on national television to issue an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein, urging him to leave his country within 48 hours. Bush also had this message for “all Iraqi military and civilian personnel”:
War crimes will be prosecuted, war criminals will be punished and it will be no defense to say, “I was just following orders.”
Watch it:
George Washington law professor Jonathan Turley argues that this statement by Bush shows that “he and his administration knew that ...
Bush: Dictatorships Don't Investigate Torture. We Will.
Library Grape —
I've noticed that the issue of all that pesky torture we did over the last 6+ years has been pretty quiet as of late. I just wanted to re-post something I put up a while back to emphasize what kind of a strange bizzaro world we're living in right now. ...
Related: abu ghraib bush al-arabiya
Just Add It To the List of Lies —
Comments from Left Field
Andrew Sullivan posts this video :
Click here to view the embedded video.
Now the truth:
Bush personally authorized every technique revealed at Abu Ghraib. He refused to act upon the International Committee of the Red Cross’s report that found that he had personally authorized the ...
Yep. —
Upper Left
Andrew Sullivan ... Punishing those responsible for war crimes is not "scapegoating". You know what scapegoating is? It's throwing Lynndie England in jail for following orders given by George W. Bush, while leaving him to the luxury of a Texan suburb. Accountability in a chain of command ...
Not all pundits coddle criminals —
The Reaction
By Creature Rich : Five years after the Abu Ghraib revelations, we must acknowledge that our government methodically authorized torture and lied about it. But we also must contemplate the possibility that it did so not just out of a sincere, if criminally misguided, desire to “protect” us ...
What Is At Stake —
Balloon Juice
Frank Rich puts it on the table :
Five years after the Abu Ghraib revelations, we must acknowledge that our government methodically authorized torture and lied about it. But we also must contemplate the possibility that it did so not just out of a sincere, if criminally misguided, desire to ...
Detainee Abuse Photos Will Be Released —
The Latest on Air America
The Obama Administration announced late Thursday that the Pentagon would turn over to the ACLU 44 photographs, which show detainees who were tortured.
ABC News has more :
The photographs are part of a 2003 Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU for all information relating to ...
Weekly Standard Backs Prosecution Of Bush Officials —
Wonk Room
Don’t they? Here’s a May 17, 2004, editorial on the perpetrators of the Abu Ghraib atrocities:
They have endangered any American unlucky enough to find himself at the mercy of our enemies in the war on terror. They have impeded our progress in that war. More fundamentally, they ...
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