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Signators, but, not Ratified: Sudan, Arunachal Pradesh, India and the Dominican Republic
The New York Times is attempting to achieve some kind of justice regarding the egregious nature of the Bush/Cheney White House and Republican Party as it validated the actions of torture by the USA government with impunity.
U.S. Lawyers Agreed on the Legality of Brutal Tactic (click title to entry - thank you)
By SCOTT SHANE and DAVID JOHNSTON
Published: June 6, 2009
...But a closer examination shows a more subtle picture. None of the Justice Department lawyers who reviewed the interrogation question argued that the methods were clearly illegal....
It is a chronic problem, since the very "W"rongful war in Iraq, that there is no 'sense' of justice to the illegalities of the administration that diverted our military from Afghanistan into Iraq. The issue of torture had became a huge dynamic of which most Americans can relate. Therefore, the demands for prosecutions of the Bush White House and the closing of Gitmo.
Americans by nature demand justice. They 'count on it' to validate their sense of right and wrong and there are just some aspects of 'living' that are abhorrent to the American Conscience. Torture is one of those. We think of torture as 'Hogan's Heroes.' Just last week Michael Moore's website stated of Colin Powell, he was the equivalent of Schultz, "I see nothing, nothing!"
That is who we are. That 'conscience' has been the mainstay of America's identity for a long time. Long before, 1987.
The USA has been 'the moral police' to the world. Where another country would validate the USA's right to torture members or preceived members of al Qaeda to stop another attack, it is SUPPOSED to be 'above' our demeanor to even 'conceive' of such things. We have ridiculed, in the past, the treatment of our POWs in Vietnam and demanded the return of human remains to family still waiting to hear about MIAs.
That's who we are. We are the people of the USA that pass judgement on 'cruel' and 'inhumane' treatment of other human beings.
In Pakistan, it was the people of the USA, its academicians, that the Late Benazir Bhutto came while longing to return to her country and restore the rights of the people of that nation. It was us she came to and voiced her demands for then President Bush to speak out against the lack of profound democracy to elections. We are that voice. We are, in actuality, more than that voice, we are the educators to the empowerment of a global voice that resounds with 'sameness' in that all people are to be treated by their governments with regard and justice.
The impetus to the 'demands' for justice regarding the past eight years, be it Iraq, Gitmo or the 'Fiscal collapse of Paulson's USA Treasury' due to the failure of AIG, (Which never should have existed in the first place.) that 'stirring' will never end UNTIL there is justice to the ACTUAL crimes against the USA Conscience.
So, for this 'venue' of 'seeking' justice by doggedly pursuing the 'advisory' lawyers to the White House and attempting to 'clarify' the roles of such persons to other presons of power is admirable, but, falls short of the ACTUAL justice Americans seek. We know they were "W"rong and all the paper between here and hell won't undo that.
The White House of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Gonzales is GUILTY AS SIN for 'up ending' the American system of Justice and TURNING AGAINST the UN Conventions of Torture and the Geneva Conventions!!! We don't forgive them. AND. We don't forgive the World Courts for denying us OUR RIGHTS to justice for their "W"rong doings. They are GUILTY, they will always be GUILTY and while the Lawyers will ultimtely be 'The Scapegoats' to power, we will have to find our own ways of impuning this level of 'hatred' of life from ever happening again.
We could have been Hilter revisited. We could have been. And to think 'that' reality was disrupted by a documentarian from Michigan and the willingness of CBS to boldly go to Abu Ghraib when no one else did and accept the consequences of those decisions, speaks strongly to the American Conscience even more than the American Judicial System.
So, while the lawyers of the Bush Executive Branch are still under the microscope, their actions over eight years of manipulations and lies have already been judged.
Perhaps the best way to put it is this. The American People will CONTINUE to 'sculpt' a government that reflects profound human rights values regardless of a Republican Party incapable of conceiving them !
