Sunday, October 24, 2010

Obama turned a blind eye to the torture crimes of his predecessor

And now the UN has called upon the administration to investigate the constant drumbeat of evidence and testimony about torture, the latest coming from the Wikileaks Iraq documents.
The United Nations' point man on torture is calling on the Obama administration to open a full investigation into newly-released documents that suggest the US may have turned a blind eye to torture in Iraq.

Manfred Nowak, the UN's special rapporteur on torture, told the BBC Saturday that the US has an "obligation" to look into reports of torture within the nearly 400,000 war documents released by WikiLeaks on Friday.

The documents chronicle numerous allegations of torture by Iraqi forces against their own citizens, as well as what appears to have been a standing order in the US military to ignore the allegations -- potentially a violation of international conventions on torture.

"There is an obligation to investigate whenever there are credible allegations torture has happened – and these allegations are more than credible – and then it is up to the courts," Nowak, an Austrian human rights lawyer, said,
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, thank you so-o much for dragging this country into your very own moral Bog of Eternal Stench.

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