The Bush Crime Wave

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The Bush Crime Wave

By Ted Lang
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9-10-6

Many alternative media writers whose patriotic base is founded on truth, fact and the nation's rule of law, have long identified the Bush administration as the "Bush regime." The implication is clear: the Bush regime operates totally outside the law. The practice of torturing defenseless detainees that have not been adjudicated as being either criminals or prisoners of war, or even proven as terrorists, but merely categorized as potential enemies of the American state by decree rather than trial by jury, is not only totally foreign to the national character of the American people, but totally violates the law of our land. Considering the horrific and deliberate deviation from what has always distinguished the American people as a nation wholly dependent on the equity and justice that is so central to our rule of law, the activities of the Bush regime regarding the so-called "war on terror" demonstrates the total absence of even a modicum of collective morality on the part of the Bush rank and file. This "administration" is indeed now unequivocally definable as a criminal regime.

A fissure in the wall of "creative law" hyped by the Bush criminals and established by then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales in his infamous torture memo, the latter attempting to legitimize Bush's unilateral termination of long-standing international agreements and the Geneva Convention, is now beginning to appear. It is important, once again, to reiterate my firm belief that President Bush is not endowed with even a semblance of the intellect required to comprehend the creative legalese of Gonzales' regulatory sorcery. But, short of Bush being declared mentally incompetent, Bush must be held personally accountable for his "administration" and made to face responsibility as its head.

In their article written for The Nation, Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith write: "The US War Crimes Act of 1996 makes it a felony to commit grave violations of the Geneva Conventions. The Washington Post recently reported that the Bush administration is quietly circulating draft legislation to eliminate crucial parts of the War Crimes Act. ...

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