Democracy Now: Bush Lied About Torture

[L. Coyote]

Run time: 10:46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9XExzfjV3w   Posted on YouTube: March 19, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: March 19, 2009 By DU Member: L. Coyote Views on DU: 802

 
PART II - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6ierPepzyY

PART III - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSDVdldYJew

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1. The Film that will put BUSH Behind BARS!

[Jack Rabbit]

2. Bush lied -- tell us something we don't know

And let him explain it to the judge.

[Imagevision]

3. Of course they lied, they all lied, they all had to save their own butts also...

[sattahipdeep]

4. Torture it makes justice impossible.

AMY GOODMAN: So, Mark Danner, did President Bush lie?

MARK DANNER: Yes. Yeah, he did.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/3/18/mark_danner_bush_lied_about_torture

And the writers of the report say, with no equivocation, that the activities that they described “constitute torture”—that’s a quote, “constitute torture”—and also constitute cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. There’s no equivocation. There’s no “it’s in the eye of the beholder.” There’s no “it depends on the definition.” None of that. They simply say it bluntly. And the people saying it are the people who are the legally constituted guardians, in effect, of the Geneva Conventions, which forbid torture of prisoners and forbid cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, as does, I should say, the Convention Against Torture of 1984, which the United States—to which the United States is a signatory, as does the War Crimes Act of 1996. All of these things make that activity illegal.

So, I think anyone who looks at the report or reads the extracts in the New York Review of Books article can have no doubt, first of all, that the United States tortured prisoners and, secondly, that this activity was illegal and constituted a breach of international and domestic law.