Sunday, September 14, 2008

Bush Admin's War Crimes

A review of three books detailing the role of the US in the torture and abuse of Gitmo detainees, appearing in today's New York Review of Books.

The writer, Anthony Lewis, a former columnist for The New York Times who has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, attacks the administration and points out that Nuremberg provides solid precedent to prosecute Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and a host of other players for actual war crimes.

Not that the United States, even under President Obama, is going to go after the previous administration for war crimes. But the whole lot of them, save Bush and Cheney with their lifelong Secret Service details, are exposed if they ever travel abroad. Here's today's Doonesbury:

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