Bush is being hunted

[Grace]

Rights groups vow to hunt Bush over torture - Yahoo! News

GENEVA (AFP) – Human rights groups vowed Monday to pursue George W. Bush wherever he travels, claiming that the former US president had cancelled a trip to Switzerland over fears that he could be probed for torture.
Bush was due to attend a fund-raising gala evening in Geneva this week, but organisers said Saturday that he had cancelled because of the risk of disturbances.
"The reach of the Convention Against Torture is wide -- this case is prepared and will be waiting for him wherever he travels next," said Katherine Gallagher, an attorney and vice-president of the Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)


Human rights groups pointed out that two "torture victims" were to have filed a criminal complaint in Geneva against Bush, who was due to speak at the gala here on February 12.
"Swiss law requires the presence of the torturer on Swiss soil before a preliminary investigation can be opened," said the FIDH, the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights and the Centre for Constitutional Rights.
"When Bush cancelled his trip to avoid prosecution, the human rights groups who prepared the complaints made (them) public and announced that the Bush torture indictment would be waiting wherever he travels next," they added in a statement.
In his memoirs published last year, Bush claimed that use of the water boarding technique -- which simulates drowning -- had directly prevented terror attacks in Britain and the United States.

He also said in an interview with the British newspaper The Times it was "damn right" that he had authorised use of the controversial method on Al-Qaeda's 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
"Waterboarding is torture, and Bush has admitted, without any sign of remorse, that he approved its use," said Gallagher.
"Torturers -- even if they are former presidents of the United States -- must be held to account and prosecuted. Impunity for Bush must end."
Gavin Sullivan, a lawyer at the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights, added that Bush "bears ultimate responsibility for authorizing the torture of thousands of individuals at places like Guantanamo and secret CIA ?black sites?.
"As all states are obliged to prosecute such torturers, Bush has good reason to be very worried," he said.

Human Rights Watch said in New York that the US authorities themselves should be pursuing Bush.
"The US government should take the lead to investigate former US President George W. Bush and other senior officials for authorizing torture of terrorism suspects rather than leaving prosecutions to other countries," the organization said.
"The US government needs to demonstrate that no official, including an ex-president, is above the law," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.

 

[Sallow]

Cool.

 

[Gh0sTeR]

Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahha!!!

 

[L.K.Eder]

oh yeah, baby.

warm it up.

keep the guy in the US, to fill up the ole koffers with his speechifying.

 

[RadiomanATL]

I used to hunt bush. I'm married now though.

 

[Anachronism]

These folks might want to remember that as a former POTUS, Bush is still protected 24/7 by the United States Secret Service. Somehow I would suggest that is going to make arresting him QUITE DIFFICULT, since Secret Service agents are well armed and quite good at using their weapons.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Lame

It's been tried. If anyone had anything on him it would have been done by now. This is little more than grandstanding.

Where's the demands for Clintons head? He got Americans killed in Somalia for nothing, but he gets a pass, even though peace keepers were killed while they were negotiating.

I wonder is the people that cheer this would think differently if he decided not to waterboard and they had to bury thier family?

fyi; If they go after Bush, they MUST also go after Pelosi. Elsewise is just a republican whitch hunt. (it is, but at least they might have to admit it)

 

[8537]

Maybe they can bring Dick Cheney along on the hunt.

 

[M14 Shooter]

I have $10k on GWB never being arrested and convicted of any "war crime" whatsoever.

Takers?

 

[Sallow]

These folks might want to remember that as a former POTUS, Bush is still protected 24/7 by the United States Secret Service. Somehow I would suggest that is going to make arresting him QUITE DIFFICULT, since Secret Service agents are well armed and quite good at using their weapons.

Which is why he cancelled his trip.

 

[Sallow]

Lame

It's been tried. If anyone had anything on him it would have been done by now. This is little more than grandstanding.

Where's the demands for Clintons head? He got Americans killed in Somalia for nothing, but he gets a pass, even though peace keepers were killed while they were negotiating.

I wonder is the people that cheer this would think differently if he decided not to waterboard and they had to bury thier family?

fyi; If they go after Bush, they MUST also go after Pelosi. Elsewise is just a republican whitch hunt. (it is, but at least they might have to admit it)

Clinton didn't start Somalia.

That would be Bush's Daddy.

 

[Gh0sTeR]

Arrest him for WHAT? There were NEVER any FORMAL charges against him, just some group SEEKING the Swiss govt. to press charges...

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Hilarious. If they get too close, they'll get a nasty dose of lead poisoning.

Good.

 

[Gh0sTeR]

Lame

It's been tried. If anyone had anything on him it would have been done by now. This is little more than grandstanding.

Where's the demands for Clintons head? He got Americans killed in Somalia for nothing, but he gets a pass, even though peace keepers were killed while they were negotiating.

I wonder is the people that cheer this would think differently if he decided not to waterboard and they had to bury thier family?

fyi; If they go after Bush, they MUST also go after Pelosi. Elsewise is just a republican whitch hunt. (it is, but at least they might have to admit it)

Clinton didn't start Somalia.

That would be Bush's Daddy.

Bush Sr. sent in humanitarian aid to Somalia. Bill Clinton sent in Delta Force Commandos and Army Rangers. When we lost 18 soldiers, Clinton decided to APPEASE Mohamed Farah Aideed and negotiated with him, and then cut and ran.

 

[Sallow]

Lame

It's been tried. If anyone had anything on him it would have been done by now. This is little more than grandstanding.

Where's the demands for Clintons head? He got Americans killed in Somalia for nothing, but he gets a pass, even though peace keepers were killed while they were negotiating.

I wonder is the people that cheer this would think differently if he decided not to waterboard and they had to bury thier family?

fyi; If they go after Bush, they MUST also go after Pelosi. Elsewise is just a republican whitch hunt. (it is, but at least they might have to admit it)

Clinton didn't start Somalia.

That would be Bush's Daddy.

Bush Sr. sent in humanitarian aid to Somalia. Bill Clinton sent in Delta Force Commandos and Army Rangers. When we lost 18 soldiers, Clinton decided to APPEASE Mohamed Farah Aideed and negotiated with him, and then cut and ran.

Hoookay..whatever..

 

[Grace]

I used to hunt bush. I'm married now though.

Coffee=reading comment above=monitor spray=not good.

 

[shintao]

Arrest him for WHAT? There were NEVER any FORMAL charges against him, just some group SEEKING the Swiss govt. to press charges...

Ahh, who do you think brings the charges except the victims, or human rights groups?? They would have a long wait, if they waited on you. DUH!

http://ccrjustice.org/files/FINAL 7 Feb BUSH INDICTMENT.pdf

http://ccrjustice.org/files/Updated Bush Denunciation Letter 7 Feb 2011 English .pdf

 

[L.K.Eder]

Clinton didn't start Somalia.

That would be Bush's Daddy.

Bush Sr. sent in humanitarian aid to Somalia. Bill Clinton sent in Delta Force Commandos and Army Rangers. When we lost 18 soldiers, Clinton decided to APPEASE Mohamed Farah Aideed and negotiated with him, and then cut and ran.

Hoookay..whatever..

i wonder if ghostman here is a reagan fan

 

[Grace]

Didn't Obama state "let it go" when pressed about charges against Bush for the same reason after he was in office? Seems to me I recall him saying that in so many words, more or less.

 

[Two Thumbs]

Lame

It's been tried. If anyone had anything on him it would have been done by now. This is little more than grandstanding.

Where's the demands for Clintons head? He got Americans killed in Somalia for nothing, but he gets a pass, even though peace keepers were killed while they were negotiating.

I wonder is the people that cheer this would think differently if he decided not to waterboard and they had to bury thier family?

fyi; If they go after Bush, they MUST also go after Pelosi. Elsewise is just a republican whitch hunt. (it is, but at least they might have to admit it)

Clinton didn't start Somalia.

That would be Bush's Daddy.

Not my point. Remeber what the reason behind the Black Hawk down and the Mogadishu mile?

Peace negotiators were killed in a building with innocent civilians, intentionally killed. Taht lead to all the people turning on us. But no one holds clintons feet in the fire over it?

I don't either. War is an ugly ugly thing, where the ugliest tend to win.

you wanna be pissed at Bush over waterboarding? be my guest. But look at your kids (or young members of your family) and ask yourself; Is burying them worth saying we were nice to murdering terrorists? B/c that's what it kept many of us from having to know.