War Criminal as Attorney General?

[rodeodance]

"http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/opinion/18dowd.html?th"

The Dems Are Caving on Gonzales

War Criminal as Attorney General?

By Prof. FRANCIS A. BOYLE

11/18/04 "Counterpunch" -- As White House Counsel, Alberto Gonzales originated, authorized, approved, and aided and abetted grave breaches of the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions of 1949 (e.g., torture and Gitmo kangaroo courts), which are serious war crimes. In other words, Gonzales is a prima facie war criminal. He must be prosecuted under the Geneva Conventions and the US War Crimes Act.

For example, article 129 of the Third Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War provides in relevant part with respect to prima facie U.S. war criminals such as Gonzales: "Each High Contracting Party shall be under the obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed, or to have ordered to be committed, such graves breaches, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts." ....

[hippiechick]

1. Nicely done !

:kick:


:hippie:

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Link is for Dowd article, not for Boyle...?

[RivetJoint]

3. Gonzales is not a War Criminal

as he did not authorize or approve anything; he's not a decision maker, he gave no orders--he just wrote a legal opinion. The ones who ISSUED the orders violating the GCs are the friggen war criminals.

[BlueEyedSon]

5. Collaborator? Co-conspirator? Accessory?

[RivetJoint]

8. Don't think

so. Not for writing an opinion. That's what lawyers do. The people who ORDERED and CARRIED out the violations are the criminals.

[Judi Lynn]

9. Where would the word "quaint" fit into a straight, clean legal opinion? nt

[bullimiami]

4. Well it matches the set

War Criminal as President
War Criminal as Vice President
War Criminal as Secretary of Defense
War Criminal as Secratary of State

of course you need a

War Criminal as Attorney General

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Which reminds me, is branding Kissinger a War Criminal impeded

him in anyway?

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. We need to remake the Democratic Party.

It no longer represents the will of the people that they should be representing. So, the answer is that we need to start supporting those who do. Who has made their bones? Give us their names and we should do what we can through donations and support to get them re-elected.

[Moderator]

10. Your link is to an editorial by Maureen Dowd

Please read the rules of LBN. You have posted many locked threads this morning with odd links and headline violations.