John ‘Torture’ Yoo and Conyers today..

Yoo dances around like the tool he is. This was today’s hearing in front of the Judical Committee. H/T to John Amato at C&L for the heads up on this video. Also Addington’s dumb ass is in this clip as well.

For a nice roundup of today’s hearing..including videos check out TPM Muckraker’s section here.

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war.criminals.

In the preface to the Physicians for Human Rights report on torture by the United States, Retired Maj. General Antonio M. Taguba writes the following:

This report tells the largely untold human story of what happened to detainees in our custody when the Commander-in-Chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture. . .

The profiles of these eleven former detainees, none of whom were ever charged with a crime or told why they were detained, are tragic and brutal rebuttals to those who claim that torture is ever justified. . . .

In order for these individuals to suffer the wanton cruelty to which they were subjected, a government policy was promulgated to the field whereby the Geneva Conventions and the Uniform Code of Military Justice were disregarded. The UN Convention Against Torture was indiscriminately ignored. And the healing professions, including physicians and psychologists, became complicit in the willful infliction of harm against those the Hippocratic Oath demands they protect.

After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts, and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.

The former detainees in this report, each of whom is fighting a lonely and difficult battle to rebuild his life, require reparations for what they endured, comprehensive psycho-social and medical assistance, and even an official apology from our government.

But most of all, these men deserve justice as required under the tenets of international law and the United States Constitution.

And so do the American people.” (Maj. General Antonio M. Taguba (USA-Ret.)

You can download the entire report on the medical evidence of torture by the U.S. here. Read it and weep, then get on the phone to Nancy Pelosi and demand that impeachment be put ON the fucking table and that these sociopaths in the Bush administration be arrested and imprisoned. There is no other way we can redeem ourselves as a nation.

Crossposted at Big Ass Belle’s Place

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PNAC site is down..is it out?

Thanks to SuzieQ for this item. We all know these bags of batshit, the PNAC, are still walking the street and should be in jail on warcrimes. From the linkage:

The web site of the neoconservative based Project for a New American Century think tank has been taken down. The think tank in their own documents advocated the virtues of using the U.S. military as a global police force. They also endorsed preemptive war as a way to shape the world and even lobbied to get Bill Clinton to invade Iraq back in 1998. Contributors and signatories associated with the think tank included several high profile figures in George W. Bush’s administration including Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, John Bolton, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, Richard Armitage and Richard Perle. Documents originating from this think tank have been the subject of a great deal of criticism by the 9/11 truth and anti-war movements. It now looks as if the neoconservatives whose agenda has been faltering as of late have decided to pull the plug on the web site for the purposes of damage control. If not, than somebody forgot to pay their Internet provider. We’ll let you be the judge of which is the more likely scenario.

I dunno if its down and out or just didn’t pay their host billing..but I hate them with a fervor saved for evil tyrants and warmongering fools..so take from it what you will m’dear reader. These smarmy bastards are scum and deserve a cell at the Hague..since most if not all of them are or were involved in BushCo’s bullshit occupation of Iraq and the resulting debacle of death. If the smarmy site is down forevah….hoo-fucking-ray!!! If they just need to pay their internet hosting bill..too bad..I wish them nothing but horror and pain for all the days they have left. The photos below are the assholes that signed their names to the infamous 2000 memo..make they all rot in hell.

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