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malaise

(269,066 posts)
Wed Dec 10, 2014, 08:56 AM Dec 2014

Hey you war criminal of a Dick - they are calling you out

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/torture-cia-amnesty-international-human-rights-watch
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Former Bush officials had been critical of the report’s findings before they were made public. Former vice-president Dick Cheney told the New York Times on Monday that any attempt to portray the programme as a rogue operation was a “bunch of hooey” and defended its use as “absolutely, totally justified”.

But Mary Ellen O’Connell, a professor of international law at the University of Notre Dame, told the Guardian that Cheney’s comments were undermined by the contents of the report.

“By bringing out that the CIA lied to Congress, to the executive branch, to the Justice Department, to the inspector general, to the courts and others, the report undermines any chance for Republicans like former vice-president Cheney to defend the CIA,” O’Connell said.

“The United States is obligated under both the Geneva convention and the convention against torture … to investigate and prosecute the commission of torture.”

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Hey you war criminal of a Dick - they are calling you out (Original Post) malaise Dec 2014 OP
As well as "Make sure this happens!!" Rummy ...... he's one I don't hear called out much. polly7 Dec 2014 #1
Yes indeed malaise Dec 2014 #2
When has the USA EVER lived up to it's obligations? Bandit Dec 2014 #3
Cheney isn't worried. Those in power "have his back". nt ladjf Dec 2014 #4
Has Cheney been traveling? Just curious. Tsiyu Dec 2014 #5
I await that day malaise Dec 2014 #6
Won't it be glorious? If the coward ever goes anywhere.... Tsiyu Dec 2014 #7
He travels at night, through the air, on a pair of leathery wings aint_no_life_nowhere Dec 2014 #8
Need Justice. johnnyreb Dec 2014 #9

polly7

(20,582 posts)
1. As well as "Make sure this happens!!" Rummy ...... he's one I don't hear called out much.
Wed Dec 10, 2014, 09:47 AM
Dec 2014

The army’s criminal investigation division began a probe on January16, 2004, after Joseph Darby, a soldier not involved in the abuse, slipped the investigators a CD carrying some of the photos. As the CID investigation set to work, Karpinski, according to her later testimony, asked a sergeant at the prison, "What’s this about photographs?" The sergeant replied, "Ma’am, we’ve heard something about photographs, but I have no idea. Nobody has any details, and Ma’am, if anybody knows, nobody is talking." When she asked to see the logbooks kept by the military intelligence personnel, she was told that the CID had cleared up everything. However, when she went to look for herself, she found they had missed something, a piece of paper stuck on a pole outside a little office used by the interrogators. "It was a memorandum signed by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, authorizing a short list, maybe 6 or 8 techniques: use of dogs; stress positions; loud music; deprivation of food; keeping the lights on, those kinds of things," Karpinski said. Over to the side of the paper was a line of handwriting, which to her appeared to be in the same hand and with the same ink as the signature. The line read: "Make sure this happens!!"

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http://www.counterpunch.org/2007/04/30/how-rumsfeld-micromanaged-torture/
How Rumsfeld Micromanaged Torture

And 'President can order child's testicles crushed' Yoo ....... so many war criminals, where to start?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/29/971038/-Yoo-President-can-order-child-s-testicles-crushed-not-contractor-transparency#

malaise

(269,066 posts)
2. Yes indeed
Wed Dec 10, 2014, 09:50 AM
Dec 2014

The 'collective pack' were despicable human beings - they should be referred to as the torture lovers

Bandit

(21,475 posts)
3. When has the USA EVER lived up to it's obligations?
Wed Dec 10, 2014, 10:04 AM
Dec 2014

Ask the Native Americans if obligations were met..

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
5. Has Cheney been traveling? Just curious.
Wed Dec 10, 2014, 11:58 AM
Dec 2014

Watching him in videos, I realize he is nervous as hell.

His asshole is up in his throat, because if he gets caught in the wrong country, he's gonna be sitting on a cold prison bench and he knows it.

Like all abusers, Cheney is good at pretending he is above taking responsibility for his actions. But he knows he is at risk of being brought down by his own sociopathic activities. Who knows better than he the extent of his craven behavior?

I am wondering if he goes anywhere outside the US. Must admit I don't keep up with the devil; he's one of those toxic soul vampires it's best to avoid.


malaise

(269,066 posts)
6. I await that day
Wed Dec 10, 2014, 01:01 PM
Dec 2014

and there will be no Thatcher to beg for him the way he begged for his dear friend, the war criminal and murderer Pinochet.

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
7. Won't it be glorious? If the coward ever goes anywhere....
Wed Dec 10, 2014, 01:07 PM
Dec 2014

I think I'll ask Santa for: Cheney doing the perp walk in Europe.

Would be the best Christmas present for a lot of people...


johnnyreb

(915 posts)
9. Need Justice.
Wed Dec 10, 2014, 02:02 PM
Dec 2014

Fuggin' K&R.

“The United States is obligated under both the Geneva convention and the convention against torture … to investigate and prosecute the commission of torture.”
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