Amnesty International is calling for the arrest of top American Officials over “torture”:
“If the United States permits the architects of torture policy to get off scot-free, then other nations should step into the breach,” William Schulz, executive director of Amnesty International USA, said in a statement launching Amnesty’s annual report.
Bush is among a dozen former or current U.S. officials who should be probed by foreign governments because Washington has failed to conduct “a genuinely independent and comprehensive investigation” of torture allegations against U.S. troops, commanders, and their civilian overseers, Schulz said.
Others on the Amnesty list of potential targets for investigation and prosecution include Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief George Tenet.
“If the U.S. government continues to shirk its responsibility, Amnesty International calls on foreign governments to uphold their obligations under international law by investigating all senior U.S. officials involved in the torture scandal,” Schulz said.
“If those investigations support prosecution, the governments should arrest any official who enters their territory and begin legal proceedings against them,” he added. “The apparent high-level architects of torture should think twice before planning their next vacation to places like Acapulco or the French Riviera because they may find themselves under arrest as Augusto Pinochet famously did in London in 1998.”
Pinochet was snatched up.
Never mind that there is widespread raping of women and children by UN peacekeepers. Never mind that there is a legitimately named Genocide occurring in Sudan. And let’s set aside the hysterical and grossly historically inaccurate equating of Gitmo’s camp x-ray with the Gulag.
Let’s set all that aside just for kicks.
What is Amnesty International up to other than destroying their own international credibility along side the corrupt and cancerous UN by making outrageous claims.
Anyone? Anyone?
While I am at it: who funds the UN? We do over 25% — with Japan and France we combine to donate more than most other countries combined. Where’s Dangerfield when we need his trademark line?
Let’s be honest here and drop the political agenda of AI. The US military has been more open and more accountable and more cautious than any other military in the history of the world. Especially at war time. And it is very good at learning from its mistakes as evidenced lately. And according to the recent survey, the US military is trusted into the 70th percentile while MSM and other institutions lag FAR behind. There is a reason for that.
We are at war people. Remember? Do not be lulled into thinking the warfare stops at the edge of the battlefield. This is asymmetric, 4th generation war.
June 9th, 2005 | Global War On Terror, Jihad Watch, Politics, UN Corruption