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Former President George W. Bush has been forced to cancel a planned trip to Switzerland after human rights attorneys threatened to take legal action against him for sanctioning the use of torture. The Center for Constitutional Rights said they had planned to bring a complaint on behalf of two men who were tortured by U.S. interrogators and held at the military base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. "It's disappointing we weren't able to actually prosecute him," says CCR Legal Director Bill Quigley, who was interviewed on Democracy Now! Feb. 10, 2011. "But I think it has shown worldwide, that even though he was the president of the United States, if you engage in torture ... there are consequences."
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what a man
guled1982 7 months ago
hat a man
guled1982 7 months ago
Why can't he be arrested in the U.S.? That's ridiculous..
Jonyrotn3 9 months ago
@MoscowMaestro and hows going to stop them lol
nextxguy 10 months ago
@nextxguy Kiss your ass? I'll rip you a new one, you stinking piece of yankee shit. The next time your faggot Bush or your scumbag Rumsfeld show up in Europe, THEY AIN'T GOIN' HOME. Got that, yankee???
MoscowMaestro 10 months ago
If they are going for him why are they going for Tony Blair
miriam23ishish 11 months ago
This video made me smile. I want to see Bush in prison for crimes of torture on his own American citizens. He uses an airborne electromagnetic laser on me that comes from military aircraft. It cramps and stabs muscles, attacks bones, strikes into orifices and kills from up to almost two miles high in the sky. President George W. Bush, who supports torture, will be indicted for not only torturing people from foreign lands, but his own citizens one day and I will witness to expose evil.
EPELIPC 11 months ago
@nextxguy your logic is the same as two wrongs make a right. Right?
My question to you is. "What's in it for you to make such a silly statement?"
a2zhandi 11 months ago
a book full of lies by a liar who lied about his recommendation by a liar? WTF who in their right mind would buy such a book?
It would appear the elite are becoming fearful as rumored. Bush, should be tried in this country!!! And prosecuted by his own laws.
a2zhandi 11 months ago
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. - Thomas Jefferson
MrChrisMcPhail2 11 months ago