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Friday, June 20, 2008 |
ICH: "Retired Major General Antonio Taguba, the Army general who first investigated the abuse at Abu Ghraib, has accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes. 'The commander in chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture,' Taguba said."
AfterDowningStreet: "A conference to plan the prosecution of President Bush and other high administration officials for war crimes will be held September 13-14 at the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover.
'This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred,' said convener Lawrence Velvel, dean and cofounder of the school. 'It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth.'
'We must try to hold Bush administration leaders accountable in courts of justice,' Velvel said. 'And we must insist on appropriate punishments, including, if guilt is found, the hangings visited upon top German and Japanese war-criminals in the 1940s.'
'For Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and John Yoo to spend years in jail or go to the gallows for their crimes would be a powerful lesson to future American leaders,' Velvel said."
But Bush can still do a lot of mischief during the last months of his dictatorship. Though I don't think he would be so stupid as to risk a mutiny by his military staff, his arrest and putting him under restraint for insanity. Anyway, Bush will go into history as the worst president ever, under whose reign the decline of America started for good.
TimesOnline: "The United States Air Force has set up a highly confidential strategic planning group tasked with 'fighting the next war' as tensions rise with Iran.
Project Checkmate, a successor to the group that planned the 1991 Gulf War's air campaign, was quietly reestablished at the Pentagon in June.
It reports directly to General Michael Moseley, the US Air Force chief, and consists of 20-30 top air force officers and defence and cyberspace experts with ready access to the White House, the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
Detailed contingency planning for a possible attack on Iran has been carried out for more than two years by Centcom (US central command), according to defence sources."
There is enough evidence to condemn several US presidents. Like this document.
"How to covertly train paramilitaries, censor the press, ban unions, employ terrorists, conduct warrantless searches, suspend habeas corpus, conceal breaches of the Geneva Convention and make the population love it."
Freedom, liberty, democracy and justice? Freedumb, libidy, the mockracy and just this!
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Ukuleles for Peace: "For a long time, we have been watching and living the miserable situation between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs in the area. We asked ourselves, how can we contribute to a change of atmosphere? How can we break the distrust between the societies, and how can we - as simple citizens - create more opportunities for Jews and Arabs to meet and be involved with one another in our daily lives?
As Paul regularly performs to both Arab and Jewish kids, it gave him an idea: to combine his love for the ukulele (a small and easy to learn 4 string instrument) and his experience with children to create Ukuleles For Peace."
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