President Bush's Executive Order prohibiting torture does exactly the opposite as White House and Pentagon have a very narrow definition of "cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment", human rights groups alleged yesterday.
They also point out that because the order interprets for the United States "Common Article 3" of the Geneva Conventions, only as authorized in the Military Commissions Act, and under the Act detainees can be held incommunicado forever, US authorities can carry on violating the Geneva Conventions with any restrictions.
According to Human Rights Watch, the Executive Order has effectively authorized forced disappearnces and 'Enhance Interrogation Techniques' including water-boarding and other forms of cruel methods that the Bush Administration does not consider as torture.
“By international human rights and humanitarian law standards, the CIA program is illegal to its core,” said Joanne Mariner, terrorism and counterterrorism director at Human Rights Watch. “Although the new executive order bars torture and other abuse, the order still can’t purport to legalize a program that violates basic rights.”
Meanwhile the ACLU claimed that the President Bush cannot be trusted to enforce the order.
"If any of the recent past presidents, Republican or Democrat, were applying this order, we wouldn't have any doubt that it means an end to torture and abuse by the CIA," Christopher Anders, Senior Legislative Counsel of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office said. "However, with President Bush's record of playing word games with anti-torture laws, we do not have the same confidence that the torture and abuse has stopped and will not start up again."
Bush Executive Order Meaningless
Even if the executive order actually banned torture, it is meaningless. Torture was already illegal and is still illegal under US and International law. The Bush junta and the CIA consider themselves above any law and will continue to commit criminals acts regardless of any ill-conceived PR stunts.
Who's Authorized To Stop Ignoring Bush's Incriminating 911 Stmts
As George Orwell told us, LIES OF OMISSION ARE THE WORST.
Has anyone else noticed that everyone (including, but not limited to, Michael Moore, Arianna Huffington, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Republicans, Hillary Clinton, Iraq Obama, Joe Lieberman, Amy Goodman, Alex Jones and others who pretend to oppose Bush) OMIT ALL MENTION OF BUSH’S VOLUNTARY, REPEATED, INCRIMINATING 9/11 WITNESS STATEMENTS, same as all the other fake-opposition Democrats and assorted elements of the corrupt media?
Alex Jones?!
How can you lump Alex Jones into that group? I learned about Bush's incriminating statements and heard the tapes from Alex Jones. He talks about it ALL THE TIME, and he works tirelessly to expose government frauds and cover-ups and the NWO agenda. What are YOU doing to change things?
Good point Discog. You have
Good point Discog.
You have a strong point.
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