Posted on Tuesday, 8/18/2009 - 6:13 a.m. PDT — by solidarityforever
John Yoo is a war criminal and his torture memos clearly justify the practice of barbarism that should lead to his prosecution and imprisonment. The fact that Berkeley justifies his employment by stating that they do not have the resources to investigate his work for the DOJ is a quite spurious argument indeed. When interviewed by a law professor from Notre Dame's Center for Civil and Human Rights and asked "if the president's right to torture was so absolute, could no law stop him from crushing the testicles of the person's child"? Yoo responded, "No treaty." I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that," he said. The only way to block a president from torturing, Yoo argued, was to impeach him. Yoo advised the president of the USA that he did not have to comply with the Geneva Conventions or international laws win handling detainees in the war on terror because Afghanistan was a "failed state" and the prisoners were " illegal enemy combatants." "The fact that the US government has taken the war on terror outside the Geneva Conventions, makes it possible for U.S soldiers to be denied the protections of the the Conventions and therefore be prosecuted for crimes, including murder and President Bush could be accused of a "grave breach" by other countries, which mean he could be prosecuted for war crimes." This memo was sent from former Secretary of State Colin Powel's legal adviser, William Howard Taft IV.
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Joined: Jun 2008
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Thanks for your opinion, crazy person.
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Dear eggbert; Yes, I do have opinions and I guess you think that torture is a policy that we should allow our government to sanction. So, the next time a member of our military gets tortured and/or killed by folks we are trying to kill, I guess we might be a bit hypocritical for calling them bloodthirsty.
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There was no torture and Professor Yoo is a patriot! Must suck to be anti-Yoo!
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How long have you had your head in the sand hohhot1? No torture? Yoo is a patriot? I could train a monkee to wave a flag in the air. Does that make him a patriot?
If you think that our country does not have blood on its hands, then why the need to train military folks around the world on the art of torture? Why the need for secret CIA prisons? The School of the Americas in Ft. Benning Georgia some call the School of the Assasins and the US government has renamed too. It has and continues to be in the torture business going on forty years. Read about the death squad members from El Salvador trained at the SOA who in the middle of the night invaded the University of El Salvador and murdered six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and sixteen year old daughter. I visited the site of their murders almost twenty years ago.
Getting back to the Middle East, go see a movie called "Taxi to the Dark Side." It was made by the son of an admiral from WWII in charge of interrogations of US prisoners. You will learn about the kidnapping, torture and killing of a taxi driver from Afghanistan. By the way, one of his US jailers actually went to jail for the crime, but the Rumsfeld and the higher ups responsible have not even been questioned. Yoo and the makers of US torture policies need to be tried for their war crimes. Does the president have the right to allow torture? Have you read the constitution lately or the Geneva Accords?
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Just blow up the whole Middle East and let Allah sort it all out.
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We have got to do something with all those nukes stockpiling with lots of rust on them. Got to justify that war budget closing in on one trillion a year. Better dead than ____________??
We keep inventing new boogie men.
Who's next?