For his abuse, imprisonment & killing of children, this president should stand trial for war crimes

For His Treatment of Children in the 'War on Terror' Bush is a War Criminal
Submitted by dlindorff on May 21, 2008 - 12:42pm.
By Dave Lindorff

Surely nothing that President Bush has done in his two wretched terms of office—not the invasion and destruction of Iraq, not the overturning of the five-centuries-old tradition of habeas corpus, not his authorization and encouragement of torture, not his campaign of domestic spying—nothing, can compare in its ugliness as his approval, as commander in chief, of the imprisoning of over 2500 children.

According to the US government’s own figures, that is how many kids 17 years and younger have been held since 2001 as “enemy combatants”—often for over a year, and sometimes for over five years. At least eight of those children, some reportedly as young as 10, were held at Guantanamo. They even had a special camp for them there: Camp Iguana. One of those kids committed suicide at the age of 21, after spending five years in confinement at Guantanamo. (Ironically and tragically, that particular victim of the president’s criminal policy, had been determined by the Pentagon to have been innocent only two weeks before he took his own life, but nobody bothered to tell him he was slated for release and a return home to Afghanistan.)

I say Bush’s behavior is criminal because since 1949, under the Geneva Conventions signed and adopted by the US, and incorporated into US law under the Constitution’s supremacy clause, children under the age of 15 are classed as “protected persons,” and even if captured while fighting against US forces are to be considered victims, not POWs. In 2002, the Bush administration signed an updated version of that treaty, raising the “protected person” age to all those “under 18.”

Treaties don’t mean much to this president, to the vice president, or to the rest of the administration, but they should mean something to the rest of us.

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For his abuse, imprisonment and killing of children, this president should stand trial for war crimes.

more at:
http://www.democrats.com/node/16646

This is my greatest hope. Poor kids.

period. How sickening to have this POS still there sitting in the WH. Hopefully, the truth will prevail.

no wonder so many of our soldiers are coming home committing suicide, they have seen so much destruction and death among innocent people.

None of the evil people at the top of this awful gang will ever be punished.

then we as a nation will deserve the bloody blow back we will receive from the rest of the planet.

or will be their victims also. Never say it couldn't happen here, and its being done by these so called Americans, they are treasonous criminals.

bushco is going to the hague before this is all said and done. Theres many very powerful people in this world who will make sure of that if we don't do it ourselves. All they are doing now is adding more reasons for their imprisonment not covering their asses as they think.

Efforts to legislate a pardon for torture and other war crimes just increases the pool of those who will have to be put on trial.

if not in the US, then in an international tribune. their crimes are too many and too heinous

how to go about it. We know that Congress refuses to do its job by impeaching this administration so what recourse do we have? Could we get a class action suit going against them? We need a solution.

His approval ratings weren't exactly soaring when he claimed he had a "mandate" & was going to "use it". Only an egotistical Bush would have the gall to behave as a dictator while his approval ratings are practically in the hole.

The current congress is letting him get away with it.

but the Repigs when they were in control, were just giving them the rubber stamp. Now they are banking on the election and a change of leadership is going to change everything, and it won't too much damage has been done unless we all work together.

:kick:

unconstitutional signing statements and executive orders . . . violations of US and international law . . .

Bush and company are highly vulnerable on all of these counts . . . and must ultimately be brought to justice by both international and US tribunals . . . the time is W-A-A-A-A-A-Y past due . . .

far worse than most behind bars.

:sarcasm:

My God! The rest of the world should boycott us until we impeach these guys.

backyard, we haven't had a confrontation since the Civil War.

Keep demanding it. Keep hammering for it.

The DC-Dem firewall protecting this regime could collapse at any time.

If Conyers would just pass the gavel over to Wexler, the snowball could start to roll downhill.

Impeachment remains our ONLY moral, patriotic option.

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Should humanity and what passes for civilization survive the next 20 years I believe Bush will ultimately be tried in an international court.

The sooner the better for us all. (well , except him and his of course but they have been at the party at others expense for too long now and it's time to pay the piper)

oddly enough, tho, I seem to recall that they forced all the under 15-year olds out of at least
one of the areas before they attacked ---

And for 100 other reasons.

Guess what? It will NEVER HAPPEN.

Stalin wound up being killed by the people likely to be purged next, but that can hardly be considered "justice"- simple cause and effect.

Bushco grows in power while our complacency grows to new heights.

:applause:
GOD let it be done!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA- we desperately need it!

My hope is that one day Bush and his minions are charged with SOMETHING, ANYTHING. History will eventually call him the worst President ever. But he should do some kind of time. And as accessories some of the American people for voting for him. And some the media for giving him a free ride. Ok I'm done.

But it was too late.

Still, good post!

escapes being seen as part of same motivation; which WE understand as being the destruction of representative gov ie democracy in the USA, but we're a minority, sorta. It's not naivete, or even plain stupidity; it has something to do with THE MAN understanding crowd psychology, psychic scoring and use of subliminal messaging. Lookit the pigmedia. How is it that a) the news media is lower then car salemen in terms of trust? Yet if the very medium of 'information' is untrustworthy: is it possible this is the idea- the opposite of what we are led to believe is true, therefore the news media is trusted, because common sense says the opposite? Their 'crimes against humanity' might be the only thing that bush and co. know is going to keep them from being held to account (the nazis never intended the death camps to go down in history- not the history taught to schoolkids, that's for sure. In the same way, bush and co possibly understood that the horror itself of the wars was all that protect them from us; since the majority simply refuse to believe LIHOP much less MIHOP, or that's the impression mass media is giving. What are war crimes compared to the intentional devaluing of the US dollar, secretly cashing in the value, using fake home loans mortgages as cover? What are war crimes compared to LIHOP?)
I hope Obama pulls the rug from under them, once he has power....