...On Friday in Kuala Lumpur in the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere on Earth, Bush, former vice president Dick Cheney, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and five of their legal advisors were found guilty of war crimes for torture, cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of prisoners who suffered at the hands of U.S. Soldiers and contractors in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and Iraq. The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission convened a five-panel tribunal, and after a week-long trial delivered the unanimous guilty verdicts with full transcripts of witness statements, charges, and other materials being sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, the United Nations and the Security Council. The Commission is also requesting that the names of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Yoo, Bybee, Addington, and Haynes be entered and added to the Commission’s Register of War Criminals for the public record.

Former vice president Dick Cheney admitted authorizing torture in a nationwide televised broadcast in December, 2008, and said, “I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn’t do. And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it.” The former General in charge of Abu Ghraib prison said she saw a memo signed by Donald Rumsfeld allowing civilian contractors to use “harsh interrogation techniques on detainees at Abu Ghraib prison” and instructed Army personnel to take in inmates without registering them. Both of Rumsfeld’s orders are in direct violation of the Geneva Convention and former General Karpinski said she would be willing to testify against Rumsfeld in a war crimes investigation....


Kuala Lumpur is a international and financial city in Malaysia. This is not a minor event, either. Kuala Lumpur is a respected city in the east. I am confident anyone conducting finance in the global economy has respect for it.