Some Straight Talk from Scott Horton at No Comment. This news is indicative of what civilised nations expect us to do in light of our legal obligations. I hope and fully expect our Congress and President Obama to investigate and then fulfill our obligations under the law.
In an interview on Tuesday evening with the German television program “Frontal21,” on channel ZDF Professor Manfred Nowak, the United Nations Rapporteur responsible for torture, stated that with George W. Bush’s head of state immunity now terminated, the new government of Barack Obama was obligated by international law to commence a criminal investigation into Bush’s torture practices.
“The evidence is sitting on the table,” he stated. “There is no avoiding the fact that this was torture.” He pointed to the U.S. undertakings under the Convention Against Torture in which the country committed that it would criminally prosecute anyone who tortured, or extradite the person to a state that would prosecute him. “The government of the United States is required to take all necessary steps to bring George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld before a court,” Nowak said.
Manfred Nowak, an internationally renowned law professor at the University of Vienna, currently serves as an independent expert for the United Nations looking at allegations of torture affecting member states. In 2006, he undertook a special investigation of conditions at the U.S. detention facilities at Guantánamo in which he concluded that practices approved by the Bush Administration violated human rights norms, including the prohibition against torture.
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Obama should hold up the US Constitution to confirm he is President by showing his birth certificate and restart the trials at Gitma with the real war criminals. Who cares what the UN thinks they are nothing but war criminals......if the UN did their job there would NOT have been a war in IRAQ......YEA Liberals/Marxist it is the the UN fault if you actually know history!! But since your Marxist you cut that history you do not like out of the text books..... Get rid of the UN and try the UN for war crimes not that would correct all the problems of the world.... The UN has only caused wars and got in the way of ending wars that would make wars work. The UN is against freedom and is why they like OBAMA the marxist our first Marxist Prestident
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