September 02, 2007


IMPEACH BUSH


IMPEACH CHENEY

BUSH CALLED A "MASS MURDERER"

Paul Craig Roberts, a former Reagan aide, has rightly called George W. Bush a mass murderer. Bush was already a serial killer before he stole the White House. He almost gleefully presided over a record number of executions while he was governor of Texas. An estimated 655,000 Iraqis have perished in Bush's unnecessary war. Now he wants to attack Iran. This article by Liliana Segura is at www.alternet.org:

One person sees the black humor--but he's not laughing. Paul Craig Roberts, the former Reagan aide who has earned a reputation for being a saber-toothed critic of the Bush administration recently posted an article on Antiwar.com, where he sounds the alarm on Bush's attack plans against Iran, arguing that a military strike would result in so many additional deaths it would place Bush even higher on the list of "mass murderers of all time"--a distinction, Roberts says, the president already holds.

"Bush is too self-righteous to see the dark humor in his denunciations of Iran for threatening 'the security of nations everywhere' and of the Iraqi resistance for 'a vision that rejects tolerance, crushes all dissent, and justifies the murder of innocent men, women, and children in the pursuit of political power," he writes. "Those are precisely the words that most of the world applies to Bush and his Brownshirt administration."

RED CROSS COMPILING WAR CRIMES EVIDENCE

Even with the careful control of the news, we know already that the Bush administration has sanctioned and participated in war crimes. The Red Cross has quietly been compiling evidence that could conceivably be used to try George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and other ranking members of this administration for crimes against humanity. I believe such a trial such take place even if in absentia. The atrocities of Bush and his cronies should be recorded for all human history. This article by Nat Hentoff is at www.villagevoice.com:

While the Democratic Congress has yet to begin a serious investigation into what many European legislators already know about American war crimes, a particularly telling report by the International Committee of the Red Cross has been leaked that would surely figure prominently in such a potential Nuremberg trial. The Red Cross itself is bound to public silence concerning the results of its human-rights probes of prisons around the world—or else governments wouldn't let them in.

But The New Yorker's Jane Mayer has sources who have seen accounts of the Red Cross interviews with inmates formerly held in CIA secret prisons. In "The Black Sites" (August 13, The New Yorker), Mayer also reveals the effect on our torturers of what they do—on the orders of the president—to "protect American values."