Years Later: Human Rights Watch Announces That Bush and Cheney Tortured - What Gives?
| 13 Jul 2011: posted by the editor - Human Rights, United States | |
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By David Swanson "(Washington, DC) - Overwhelming evidence of torture by the Bush administration obliges President Barack Obama to order a criminal investigation into allegations of detainee abuse authorized by former President George W. Bush and other senior officials, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Obama administration has failed to meet US obligations under the Convention against Torture to investigate acts of torture and other ill-treatment of detainees, Human Rights Watch said." Hey, thanks, Sherlock. What was your first clue? I'm glad someone still cares. But why not care a little faster? This report ends by reviewing foreign efforts to step in where the U.S. justice system has failed, and U.S. efforts—successful thus far—to prevent that. If Human Rights Watch turns against illegal wars someday, we can perhaps expect a review of the bombing of Libya several years after it ceases. And we'll be better off, I guess. But why not speak up at the time? If Bush and Cheney belong in prison, why would it have been so unacceptably impolite to impeach them and remove them from office? Tags: GW Bush, Dick Cheney, torture, Human Rights Watch |
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