Waterboarding should be prosecuted as Torture: U.N.

Waterboarding should be prosecuted as Torture: U.N.

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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding and used by the United States qualifies as torture, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday.

"I would have no problems with describing this practice as falling under the prohibition of torture," the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, told a news conference in Mexico City.

Arbour made her comment in response to a question about whether U.S. officials could be tried for the use of waterboarding that referred to CIA director Michael Hayden telling Congress on Tuesday his agency had used waterboarding on three detainees captured after the September 11 attacks

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So the U.N. is basically saying that whoever authorized this should be tried and prosecuted...The only problem is, we KnoW it won't be OUR corrupt officials to do this, and if another country takes the lead, how will they be able to ENFORCE it?

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[edit on 8-2-2008 by DimensionalDetective]

The UN is all talk and useless. They have no right or authority to say anything to anybody. They should be grateful that we dont throw their sorry behinds out of our country and render them homeless and relegated to destitution.

It is only the useless that make statements.

So, this is what waterboarding is like?

I see, thanks youtube.

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Here is a remarkably similiar thread from 2/7/08:
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I think the differences in opinion are important.



[edit on 8-2-2008 by kerontehe]

It is worth pointing out that torture violations of the Law of War and international treaties are not subject to the Presidential pardon power. We will see these individuals on trial in the Hague for their publicly confessed war crimes.

Source | GlobalResearch.ca | Torture Is Impeachable and Has Been Confessed to

George Bush and Michael Hayden have publicly confessed to government waterboarding.

In addition:

It is time for the appointment of a special prosecutor – General Mukasey must recuse himself because of his refusal to publicly state that waterboarding is criminal torture. As explained in the law review article and elsewhere, the following individuals played primary roles in the authorization of waterboarding and should be immediately identified as the primary subjects of the investigation:

George W. Bush
Richard “Dick” Cheney
John Ashcroft
Alberto Gonzales
Donald Rumsfeld
George J. Tenet
John E. McLaughlin
Porter Goss
David Addington
Jay S. Bybee
John Yoo
Jack Goldsmith
General Ricardo Sanchez
General Geoffrey Miller
General Janis Karpinski

Source | GlobalResearch.ca | Torture Is Impeachable and Has Been Confessed to

The only problem is these war criminals will, in all likelihood, be relocating to territories with no extradition treaties as soon as their gig is up.

The un is all for mind control and torture, this is just talk.

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Haha...You nailed it. Hence The Decider's massive buy up of Paraguayan real estate. Although I seriously haven't seen anyone with the cajones yet that will formerly say they are going to actually put this cabal on trial.

I bet Hugo Chavez would though.