Waterboarding: call to indict Bush following his memoirs confession
November 9th, 2010 9:35 pm ET</b>
Former U.S. President George W. Bush signs a copy of his new memoir “Decision Points” at Borders Books on November 9, 2010 in Dallas, Texas.
Photo: Tom Pennington/Getty Images
He has not lost his arrogance. He wants to sell his book, titled ‘Decision Points’.
He still dodges questions that are uncomfortable.
I caught a short clip of George Bush’s appearance with Matt Lauer regarding the legality of waterboarding. He was told by experts that waterboarding was legal; so he said: ‘Let’s do it’. When Lauer then reasoned that establishing waterboarding as legal would make it acceptable to use the technique on American captured troops, there wasn’t a hole big enough into which Bush could hide. He just wasn’t going to ‘debate the issue’.
I, for one, do not intend to read or buy this book, because there is nothing in its pages that would forgive the deception sold to the American people by Bush and his administration to take us to war in Iraq.
In the meantime, Amnesty International has called for the prosecution of the former president who confessed in his book having given the order to waterboard detainees in order to extract confessions.
Amnesty International (AI) representative Rob Freer declared that the Obama administration is obligated to take criminal action againt Bush, according to Orf.at, one of the 63 articles published in German on the subject as of this writing. In a press release, AI is also asking the United States to set in motion an independent inquiry to shed light on human rights violations committed in the name of the ‘war against terrorism’ which took place under the Bush presidency (2001-1009).
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said he was ‘outraged by President Bush’s own admission in his newly released memoir that he personally authorized the use of waterboarding on detainees while in office. This admission, delivered without remorse or regret, reminds us disturbingly of the persistent lack of accountability and resolution in confronting the crime of torture committed by our own government. The only way forward is to appoint a special prosecutor with a broad mission to investigate and, if warranted, prosecute these known cases of torture.’
What will Eric Holder do?