Here's another reason to prosecute of the ? How many are we up to now?
From Cheney's interview on radio today, he defended that torture was necessary in order to achieve the objectives he and Bush were after with their illegal war in Iraq.
Here's why we must cooperate with the World Court and the Geneva Convention. Cheney has set a very troubling precident that actually endangers the lives and well-being of our armed servicepeople. The nation most looked to for its benevolence, has now set a precident that any nation who feels it "necessary" to acheive their own objectives in war may also resort to any means it deems necessary to do so.
What will keep other nations from escaping prosecution, once it is OK'd for the US to have violated the Geneva convention? We liked waterboarding, but maybe other nations might prefer bamboo up the fingernails? Perhaps being buried in sand near a red ant hill? Or maybe their local makes it more workable to take US soldiers prisoner and burn their limbs slowly from the bottom up, acid in the face? Whatever is chic for their brand of now-permissable torture "in time of war" "to acheive the objectives".
If Congress cares about its armed personelle, it simply must prosecute these crimes in tandem with the World Court. To not do so would place our service people in grave danger of torture themselves. The US Congress' duties mandate that it must manage the armed forces of our country. That also includes managing the conditions of safety in combat and other missions. To protect our armed service people from the Cheney precident, it must be reversed. And to do so, it is compulsory on Congress to pursue those responsible for bringing about the conditions which have now placed their wards, the american servicepeople, in real and tangible danger of torture themselves.
