Vice-president Dick Cheney's burden on the Bush administration grew heavier yesterday after a former senior US state department official said he could be guilty of a war crime over the abuse of prisoners. Lawrence Wilkerson, who served as chief of staff to secretary of state Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005, singled out Mr Cheney in a wide-ranging political assault on the BBC's Today programme .Mr Wilkerson said that in an internal administration debate over whether to abide by the Geneva conventions in the treatment of detainees, Mr Cheney led the argument "that essentially wanted to do away with all restrictions".
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But it has now emerged that two justice department memos listing permissible interrogation methods have been kept secret by the White House, even from the Senate intelligence committee. The New Yorker recently quoted a source who had seen a memo as calling it "breathtaking".
"The document dismissed virtually all national and international laws regulating the treatment of prisoners, including war crimes and assault statutes, and it was radical in its view that in wartime the president can fight enemies by whatever means he sees fit," the magazine reported.

I would like nothing more than to see the entire Bush administration and all American General Military Officer's that have been in Iraq tried for war crimes.

But the reality is that the United States is the new Roman Empire and this will not happen until the other nations of the world stand up to the U.S. and force it to comply with international law. I fear it may even take a third World War, but the evil that the United States government has become - must be brought to it's knees!

I have loved the American people since the day I came here, but have increasingly come to fear and hate their government - for they have become complacent and slowly ever so slowly their rights as CITIZENS have been stolen from them and they have been deceived into believing that they still have the rights that the Founding Fathers outlined for them in the Constitution. When was the last time you have read the Constitution or the Bill of Rights, you will see what I mean.

What has happened America? Why are you not standing up for your rights? Will the rest of the world have to fight for your freedom as you fought for our freedoms in World War Two and other wars.

Wake up, Wake up, it may already be too late, but wake up take back your rights under the Constitution!

Patti

Hear, Hear, Frisco! I can't understand why anyone would willingly trade off rights and freedoms for the ILLUSION of greater security.... No one ever asked me before enacting the so-called Patriot Act (But don't think that stopped me from giving an answer)
Living in Montana, it's no surprise that a great many of my aquaintences actually voted for the Shrub, and many of them are now shocked and horrified at the actions of the administration they elected... (Several have apologized to me for having called me alarmist and unpatriotic over my screaming for two elections that this road would lead nowhere good)
As a bumper sticker I recently spotted said "No One died when Clinton Lied"