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Petraeus: US Violated Geneva Convention
Video and Transcript "When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Convention, we rightly have been criticized". http://infor mationclearinghouse.info/a rticle22738.htm Col. Peters: Kill... ...
Children as Unlamented Victims of Bush's War Crimes
By Michael Haas The best kept secret of the Bush's war crimes is that thousands of children have been imprisoned, tortured, and otherwise denied rights under the Geneva Conventions and related international... ...
How Torture Worked to Sell the Iraq War
Steve Weissman, Truthout: "If not the Justice Department lawyers, who gave the earlier go-ahead? The Senate report puts the onus directly on the decider-in-chief, President George W. Bush. He issued a... ...
The Bush Administration's Stunning Geneva Hypocrisy
Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Newly released US government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva Conventions' protections of war captives, stand in stark... ...
Richard Armitage: Waterboarding Is Torture
Pamela Hess, The Associated Press: "A former No. 2 State Department official in the Bush administration says he would have resigned if he had known the CIA was subjecting terrorism suspects to waterboarding,... ...
Bagram: Guantanamo’s dark mirror
CounterPunch by Andy Worthington 04/06/09 Sin ce coming to power in a blaze of reforming glory, promising to close Guantanamo within a year, to stop the CIA from running offshore torture prisons, and... ...
The nobodies known as former enemy combatants
Future of Freedom Foundation by Andy Worthington 03/17/09 Cha nging the names of things was a ploy that was used by the Bush administration in an attempt to justify some of its least palatable activities.... ...
Red Cross report: CIA “tortured” victims
Washington Post 03/16/09 The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration’s treatment of al-Qaeda captives ‘constituted torture,’ a finding that... ...
Obama’s “humane” Guantanamo is a bitter joke
Future of Freedom Foundation by Andy Worthington 02/23/09 The ‘war on terror’ prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the majority of the remaining 242 prisoners have been held for seven years without... ...
Prisoners Tortured to Death - Terrorist threat “exploited to curb civil liberties”
By Stephen C. Webster The American Civil Liberties Union has released previously classified excerpts of a government report on harsh interrogation techniques used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo... ...