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Bush Cancels Swiss Trip Due To Fear Of Torture Prosecution, Mass Protests

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  1. mc mark

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    I guess not all prisons have walls.

    Former President George W. Bush canceled a February 12 visit to a Jewish charity gala in Switzerland, reportedly out of fears that legal action would be taken against him for his role in authorizing torture. Human rights groups, including Human Rights Watch, the International Federation of Human Rights, and Center for Constitutional Rights, said they had intended to submit a 2,500-page case against Bush in Geneva “on behalf of two of men, Majid Khan, who remains at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Sami al-Hajj, a former Al Jazeera cameraman who was released in May 2008.”

    The Jewish charity group, United Israel Appeal, said it was canceling Bush’s invitation on security grounds, not due to legal action. “The calls to demonstrate were sliding into dangerous terrain,” Robert Equey, a lawyer for the organization, said. Protesters urged attendees of the rally to bring a shoe, recalling the moment when an Iraqi journalist threw one at Bush.

    The human rights groups had a different interpretation. “Whatever Bush or his hosts say, we have no doubt he canceled his trip to avoid our case,” the Center for Constitutional Rights and others said in a statement. “He’s avoiding the handcuffs,” Reed Brody, counsel for Human Rights Watch, told Reuters.
     
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  2. bigtexxx

    bigtexxx Contributing Member

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    a lot of wild assumptions in this garbage of an article from thinkprogress.org.

    NEXT
     
    #2 bigtexxx, Feb 6, 2011
  3. GladiatoRowdy

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    A single unsupported dismissal in this garbage of a post from bigtexxx.

    NEXT
     
    #3 GladiatoRowdy, Feb 6, 2011
  4. conquistador#11

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    It is just wishful thinking MC.
    U.S politicians cannot be touched. They're like made men in the mafia.
    Prosecution can happen to other evil men, like Pinochet, but not u.s patriots. Infact, if pinochet had been a real american, he would have retired in florida with season tickets to the heat games instead of dying in prison.

    But major props to Switzerland for trying. Sad that they do try and our own government just looks the other way.
     
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  5. mc mark

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    It must really bite your ass that your hero is considered a criminal in much of the civilized world's eyes. History will not be kind to the Bush legacy.
     
    #5 mc mark, Feb 6, 2011
  6. jo mama

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    good - that little punk should be afraid to travel anywhere. good thing for him our nation doesnt enforce its own laws or he would be swinging from the gallows pole here along w/ a few other members of his administration.
     
    #6 jo mama, Feb 6, 2011
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    He should schedule his trips to Iraq or Afghanistan. You know, places where he is considered a liberator.
     
    #7 plcmts17, Feb 6, 2011
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    Funny we appear to have such a hostility against him yet voted him into office....twice and did nothing when he went to war
     
    #8 dback816, Feb 6, 2011
  9. Air Langhi

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    I sure as hell didn't.
     
    #9 Air Langhi, Feb 6, 2011
  10. yo

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    This post is just to highlight the usual disappearance of texxx after dropping his usual turds in threads.
     
    #10 yo, Feb 6, 2011
  11. bigtexxx

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    This is to highlight that I haven't gone away. mc mark's garbage post was founded on the rock-solid evidence of a rumor. Awesome. Then thinkprogress fanned it out, and mc mark tries to pass it off as fact.

    Sorry, but that's trash
     
    #11 bigtexxx, Feb 6, 2011
  12. yo

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    I don't think I need to link to a bunch of sources documenting Bush's advocacy of torture. That's the only fact that matters. No, that's not a rumor, and any other rumors you may be referring to are irrelevant.
     
    #12 yo, Feb 6, 2011
  13. basso

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    his legacy is doing just fine.
     
    #13 basso, Feb 6, 2011
  14. SamFisher

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    Sorry, try harder next time:


    http://www.slate.com/id/2283756/
    Does Egypt Prove Bush Right?
    No, his "freedom agenda" failed long before he left office
    By Fred Kaplan
    Posted Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, at 6:46 PM ET

    Should we dig up your "It's working" posts? Your own personal "Mission Accomplished"! So many to choose from...
     
    #14 SamFisher, Feb 6, 2011
  15. bigtexxx

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    This will shut the liberals up. Nice find
     
    #15 bigtexxx, Feb 6, 2011
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    Al Gore would beg to differ.
     
    #16 s land balla, Feb 6, 2011
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    are you talking about the majority of voters electing him twice?
     
    #17 vlaurelio, Feb 6, 2011
  18. jo mama

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    who is 'we'?

    and none of that changes the fact that he committed war crimes.
     
    #18 jo mama, Feb 6, 2011
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    I don't often agree with texx, but I must side with him on this one. I don't think that W is afraid to travel because of some possible charges. It really does sound like the event was starting to become a hot-zone of violent protest. Asking people to bring shoes is tantamount to asking them to hurl those shoes at the man. I could understand W not wanting to participate in an event like that. To state unequivocally that he's canceling due to fear of prosecution when there are plenty of other reasons to cancel is poor journalism.
     
    #19 BetterThanI, Feb 6, 2011
  20. basso

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    hey, W just got a nice ovation during America the Beautiful.
     
    #20 basso, Feb 6, 2011
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