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By Lauren Booth
http://www.deliberation.info/
Abu Ghraib leash
Victory in Kuala Lumpur but no cigars in Guantanamo.
Billed as a ‘court of conscience,’ the Kuala Lumpur War crimes tribunal proved to be a gathering of sharp, knowledgeable and equally kind hearted, talents from the legal and human rights world. Over four days, a packed court room in KL, heard testimony from a series witnesses. Men and women from Iraq and the UK who had endured Viet Cong style torture – all supposedly in the name of America’s ‘security.’ The accounts of pulped limbs, sexual degradation, Medieval shackling and psychopathic torments inflicted by the powerful on the innocent and the weak, on more than one occasion, drew gasps of shock, from the court.
And then, at last the moment of truth. The first panel of judges in the world to hear the case against George Bush’s regime found he and seven cohorts unanimously guilty on all counts. Let’s re cap on who was in the dock.
Former US President George W Bush and his co conspirators;
- Richard Cheney
- Donald H Rumsfeld
- Alberto Gonzales, then counsel to president Bush
- David Addington, then General Counsel to the VP
- William Haynes II, then General counsel to the Sec of Defence
- Jay Bybee the Assistant Attorney General
- John Choo Yoo, former deputy Assistant Attorney General.
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