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NEW YORK -- There is now enough evidence to try former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for war crimes, Manfred Nowak, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, recently told "Frontal 21," a German television program.
Nowak's statement confirms what human rights and legal organizations have been saying for several years, and spotlights one of the Bush administration's most controversial decisions regarding the use of torture.
Nowak's statement follows a bipartisan Senate Arms Services Committee investigation made public in December. In scathing and unequivocal terms, the investigation revealed that Rumsfeld and other high-ranking administration officials, including former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, bore major responsibility for detainee abuse by American troops at Abu Ghraib in Iraq; Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; and other military detention centers.
This "bipartisan Senate Arms
Services Committee investigation made public in December" is news to me. Anyone out there?
The abuse was not the result of only a few soldiers acting on their own, but the consequence of interrogation policies approved by Rumsfeld and other top officials who "conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for detainees."
If americans acting for the defense of the people are to be tried for 'torture' (piling naked people into a pyramid may be criminally ugly...but is this Yamashita level stuff?) both on the spot when it deviates from what we expect as lawful, and up top, then WHO in the chain of command will do anything but server glazed chicken with pilaf and deny access to all questioners, OR conversely, NEVER JOIN, NEVER ACT, NEVER VOLUNTEER?
Lyndie England and her cohort ARE criminals. But you can be sure of one thing, this kind of Scopes Trial will be a test case for an avalanche which will unleash a partisan civil war among republicnas and democrats and the extreme left which will PERMANENTLY polarize this nation and institutionalize the criminalization of outbound political power wielders.
However the import of this article is that the Japan Times has presented it, and doen so as if it is a bypartisan factual representation of objective reality.
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THE LAST DAYS OF GUANTANAMO
An American Nightmare Could Soon End
By Matthias Gebauer, John Goetz and Britta Sandberg
The military tribunals in Guantanamo were established to try America's enemies in the war on terror. But the treatment of prisoners and blatant disregard for the rule of law at Camp Delta undermined the system and damaged the country's reputation. The end is in sight for the military prison.
We are not holding CAR THIEVES for whom we have obtained illegal evidence in a case which requires jurisprudence .
These people should all have been held as prisoners of war, and held until this war is DECLARED OVER, just as we held U Boat crews in 1942.
Read this article filled with bias, innuendo and outright untruth
Europe is going to be of no help unless, no nevermind, NO HELP does it. They simply do not have the mass needed to resist socially, civilly or even religiously until a minority fires off the religous civil war coming down the shoot.
Germans certainly don't take the idea we are in a war not of our making, or choosing seriously.
It is easier to blame the Americans for 'torturing' (water boarding for a total of 40 seconds, 30 seconds, and 2 1/2 minutes) THREE OF THE MEN DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR 9/11 in whose brains were active plans for killing more Americans.
If Guantanamo is an American nightmare where honey glazed chicken and rice pilaf is served, Muslim chaplains are always on call, and a moderate climate prevails, what, I wonder is an American dream?
Germans remain so guilty about their past they are THIRSTING to find us to be like them to 'excuse' themselves for their national historic crimes.
These morons at Speigel write as if Morris Davis the chief Gitmo prosecutor is about to become the Ramsey Clark of today ..SORRY BOYZ
Reality for Guantánamo Bay is the daily professionalism of its staff, the humanity of its detention centers and the fair and transparent nature of the military commissions charged with trying war criminals. It is a reality that has been all but ignored or forgotten.Detainees receive three culturally appropriate meals a day. Each has a copy of the Koran. Guards maintain respectful silence during Islam's five daily prayer periods, and medical care is provided by the same practitioners who treat American service members. Detainees are offered at least two hours of outdoor recreation each day, double that allowed inmates, including convicted terrorists, at the "supermax" federal penitentiary in Florence, Colo. Standards at Guantánamo rival or exceed those at similar institutions in the United States and abroad. After an inspection by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in March 2006, a Belgian police official said, "At the level of detention facilities, it is a model prison, where people are better treated than in Belgian prisons."
GET A LIFE and resist the imperial knife sliding shariah like at your selves instead of braying in the mirror that americans are no better or worse than the average citizen of Daniel Goldhagen's history.
Who is this WORLD PUBLIC OPINION.ORG?
Well at first blush they don't appear to be too exciting.
Now sometimes polls are taken to discover real opinion. Other times they are taken to create news, and mold opinion.
Now on the 'about' page we see this:
Supporters
WPO is made possible by the generous support of:
Ford Foundation
JEHT Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Stanley Foundation
Ploughshares Fund
Calvert Foundation
Circle Foundation
The JEHT Foundation is among the foremost groups maintaining that the US Supreme Court must take as precedent decisions in courts overseas.
The Ford Foundation has found its money reaching terrorists. And KEPT AT IT.
Stanley Foundation view: "Facile classifications, such as the myth of a "totalitarian Islamic threat," are unlikely to yield fruitful policies." and "There is still a significant reservoir of
good feeling toward the United States in the Muslim world...."
Ploughshares?
Who is this guy?Joseph Cirincione
President, Ploughshares Fund
Joseph Cirincione is the president of the Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation. He is the author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons (Columbia University Press, Spring 2007) and served previously as senior vice president for national security and international policy at the Center for American Progress and as director for nonproliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace for eight years.
Joseph Cirincione
He teaches a graduate seminar at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and is a member of the
Obama advisor: U.S. not cooperating with Solana TEHRAN, July 1 (MNA) - In an e-mail interview with the Mehr News Agency on Monday, Barack Obama's nuclear policy advisor, Joseph Cirincione, said the next U.S. president should "engage Iran in a full and open dialogue without preconditions." Joseph Cirincione also said the U.S. is not "cooperating" with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in his dealings with Iran.
American Thinker
Cirincione had written after Israel's strike against the suspected Syrian nuclear plant that stories about it being a North-Korean designed and built plutonium reactor were a lie -- a fiction being spread just as reports had been spread before the Iraq War that misled the press regarding Iraq's program. Schoenfeld writes:Who was behind this nefarious manipulation? It appears, wrote Circincione, "to be the work of a small group of officials leaking cherry-picked, unvetted 'intelligence' to key reporters in order to promote a preexisting political agenda." What exactly was that political agenda? "[I]t appears aimed at derailing the U.S.-North Korean agreement that administration hardliners think is appeasement." There was also a dose of Zionist mischief thrown in: "Some Israelis want to thwart any dialogue between the U.S. and Syria."
This ENTIRE effort, poll, and the news around it represents was EASILY uncovered. So howcome it's schmendricks like me and not YNETNEWS AND INN?
$45 trillion needed to combat warming
TOKYO - The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.The report by the Paris-based International Energy Agency envisions a "energy revolution" that would greatly reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels while maintaining steady economic growth.
"Meeting this target of 50 percent cut in emissions represents a formidable challenge, and we would require immediate policy action and technological transition on an unprecedented scale," IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said.
IEA??? Check out the member nations? See some nations missing?
Now if we would build nukes like there's no tomorrow, and put wind wherever we can (sorry Teddy, but that means off Nantucket) that's something I am for. Actions in our interest in terms of independent energy, and it's political freedoms, match closely in many many cases with green initiatives, and BOTH SIDES should recognize and ally on those actions.
I am of the opinion that cutting back green house gases by increasing cost, and decreasing output is a loser.
But does anyone here believe that a democratic congress will allow ambitious development of nukes, starting tmw?This should be ONE PART of an aggressive program of energy independence which EXCEPT FOR AGGRESSIVE DRILLING matches perfectly with eliminating greenhouse gases.
But the democratic party doesn't even want to think about that in that way, and the republican party has missed the boat in making allies entirely.
Afghan insurgents 'on brink of defeat'
Last Updated: 10:31PM BST 01/06/2008Missions by special forces and air strikes by unmanned drones have "decapitated" the Taliban and brought the war in Afghanistan to a "tipping point", the commander of British forces has said.
The new "precise, surgical" tactics have killed scores of insurgent leaders and made it extremely difficult for Pakistan-based Taliban leaders to prosecute the campaign, according to Brig Mark Carleton-Smith.
In the past two years an estimated 7,000 Taliban have been killed, the majority in southern and eastern Afghanistan. But it is the "very effective targeted decapitation operations" that have removed "several echelons of commanders".
This in turn has left the insurgents on the brink of defeat, the head of Task Force Helmand said.
So please explain WHY George Bush has retreated philosophically from those policies which obliterated the Afghan safe haven of the mass murderers, and overturned the Taliban, then destroyed one of the most heinous dictatorships on the planet, and allowed a totally different page of history a chance in Iraq AND in Afghanistan, where history stopped in 850 AD?
Is he impressed by all the foreign editorials?
What?
It's as if Grant had stopped after Cold Harbor and Spotsylvania because the casualties caused him ill regard.
NEW DELHI: Instead of blaming India and other developing nations for the rise in food prices, Americans should rethink their energy policy and go on a diet, say a growing number of politicians, economists and academics here.
Criticism of the United States has ballooned in India recently, particularly after the Bush administration seemed to blame India's increasing middle class and prosperity for rising food prices. Critics from India seem to be asking one underlying question: "Why do Americans think they deserve to eat more than Indians?"
The food problem has "clearly" been created by Americans, who are eating 50 percent more calories than the average person in India, said Pradeep Mehta, the secretary general of CUTS Center for International Trade, Economics and Environment, a private economic research organization based in India with offices in Kenya, Zambia, Vietnam and Britain.
If Americans were to slim down to even the middle-class weight in India, "many hungry people in sub-Saharan Africa would find food on their plates," Mehta said. The money Americans spend on liposuction to get rid of their excess fat could be funneled to famine victims instead, he added.
What's the average height Indian? What's the average height american?
Besides I'd hate to complicate the convenient bigoted disputes with the FACT that if WE, HERE were drilling the hell out of the continental shelves, and ANWR, etc., there'd be scant corn going into ethanol, and scant price increases attributable to it.
McCain is wrong on this. We have to do this, keep it clean while doing AND do fuel cell, battery and other technologies.
This claim against fat Americans is going to be typical of the coming wave of 'attacks'. Next up, SUV's, swimming pools, insect repellents, aircraft flights for frivolous reasons, large militaries, excessive water use, yadda yadda. I think we are going to need those 300+ F-22's Mr. England, you putz.
And now for that lunch 18" incher with extra cheese, pepper, mushrooms and onions
WORLD TRIBUNE:
WASHINGTON -- The intelligence communities of the European Union and the United States are moving apart in their perception of the Al Qaida threat.CIA director Michael Hayden said the intelligence agencies of the United States and the European Union view differently what he termed terrorism and other issues. Hayden said his government regarded Al Qaida as part of a global threat while EU members focused on law enforcement.
That global threat would be the UNDERPINNING of Al Qaeda, radical jihad Islam and those who support it's GOALS if not always its means. We cannot save Europe. They have to save themselves, and the solution will ALWAYS, COMPULSORILY involve BOTH having more children, and ceasing immigration. I see no sign of this, and I believe we had better plan accordingly, and so should an EXTREMELY isolated Israel.
"They tend not to view terrorism as we do, as an overwhelming international challenge," Hayden said. "Or if they do, we often differ on what would be effective and appropriate to counter it."
In an address to Kansas State University on April 30, Hayden referred to a recurring complaint by the U.S. intelligence community of its EU counterpart.
The CIA director asserted that the gap in perception on security issues between Brussels and Washington was growing.
This guys just warned Congress in closed session about the loss of sovereignty in American decision making due to foreign investments in both private and public instruments. I think I like this guy.
"Many of the disagreements we have are centered on threat perceptions and the tactics used to thwart perceived danger," Hayden said. "So, for example, while we share the view that terrorism is an urgent danger, we disagree on how best to confront it."
Still, Hayden said U.S. and EU intelligence cooperation was closer than ever. He said the greater the collaboration the "greater [the] opportunity for disagreement."
"The United States believes it is a nation at war, a war that is global in scope, and requires, as a precondition for winning, that we take the fight to the enemy, wherever he may be," Hayden said.
Here we diverge. I think both the people and the politicians want to believe that we are NOT at war, and want to behave accordingly. Edward's 'bumper sticker' philosophy on the war.
"In much of Europe, terrorism is seen differently: primarily as an internal, law enforcement problem, and solutions are focused more narrowly on securing the homeland."
Calling Sen . Kerry....
Unlike the United States, the EU has been challenged by the influx of North African Muslims, the fastest growing minority on the continent. Hayden said there are 16 million Muslims in Europe, or three percent of the overall population, with a birth rate of at least twice that of ethnic Europeans.
"Differing views over the nature of threats and the right tactics to address them are likely to impact U.S.-Europe relations for much of this century, and the effects will be felt on many levels -- from intelligence and law enforcement to military cooperation and foreign policy," Hayden said. "Managing the disagreements and tensions that arise in the absence of a unified vision will complicate what has traditionally been America's easiest relationship."
Hayden warned that the United States, regarded as a melting pot, was not immune to the Muslim threat in Europe. Without specifying, the CIA director did not rule out the prospect that new immigrants would refuse to accept American democracy.
"Our status as the world's melting pot is a source of national pride and strength," Hayden said. "Unless we are careful, though, that pride and experience might create a blind spot for us. We might misunderstand or discount the potency of ethnic nationalism in other parts of the world -- a mistake that could have serious implications for U.S. security and policy."
Hayden said the CIA has sought to recruit officers with a range of language skills and overseas experience. He said officers with skills in Arabic, Farsi, Pasto and Urdu were required in the war against Al Qaida.
"We need more experts in Islamic studies and in Middle Eastern politics, culture, and society," Hayden said. "Add South Asia, too."
You can bet that all this is going to increase the perception of the USA as the most dangerous nation in the world since we will be pressing (I hope) for actions to defend our people and our way of life, while others will perceive only a need for a few arrests for isolated individual 'kidnappings' and other bothers. We need to face the future CLEARLY..growing isolation, and growing pressure to CONFORM to decline and collapse.
Oh, that's right, I forgot we're dropping mustard, and VX on women and children because they're Kurds, and we want to make a point. That's why we use those non exploding kinetic concrete bombs under bridges, so we can avoid civilian casualties when we do that, and then kill as many as possible using chemical weapons.U.S. repeats Halabja massacre in Baghdad's Sadr City, Iraqi legislators sayBy Alaa al-Tameemi
We are Saddam. That what Iraqi 'legislators' are saying.02 May 2008 (Azzaman)In 1988, former leader Saddam Hussein gassed his own people in the city of Halabja. For the U.S. he was then seen as a 'good boy'.
Today, the power that helped Saddam build the same chemical weapons he dropped on Halabja is reported to be carrying out a repeat of his crimes.
That is the impression several Iraqi members of parliament had following a fact finding mission of the Sadr City in Baghdad which the U.S. occupation troops have been bombarding and encircling for weeks.
"The aerial bombardment and military operations the U.S. is carrying out in Sadr city are similar to what happened in Halabja," Iraqi member of parliament Falah Hassan said.
U.S. helicopter gun ships and warplanes have been pounding the city, home to more than 2 million people - their declared aim is to have it flushed of gunmen.
While gunmen are nowhere to be found, those bearing the brunt of U.S.'s disproportionate use of force are none but the city's impoverished inhabitants.
Why is it that the most outrageous and ridiculous claims are made, and then stick despite inarguable objective evidence to the contrary? Why is it that logic is powerless?
It's just another kind of bigotry. Facts can never prevail against the sickness of inner compulsions
