The Senate Armed Forces Cmte. concluded an investigation this week that Donald Rumsfeld is indeed a war criminal. The report did not say it in such language, but if the evidence shows that you directed soldiers to torture prisoners of war, then you are by default, a war criminal. Of course many people that have studied Rumsfeld's actions while he was Defense Secretary. The difference now is that the Senate has no excuse not to act.
From RawStory:
A Senate Armed Services report issued Thursday asserted that former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other members of the Bush administration "conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for detainees."Well I am glad that the Senators realize the "bad apple" theory was as rotten as the name suggests. The tree of the Pentagon was the real problem and Rumsfeld was one of the principles in charge of it. And I am almost sure that Cheney and Bush had a heavy hand in it as well. With the facts out there, there should be no delay to getting a trial started that will prosecute Donald Rumsfeld and his cabal to the fullest extent of the law.
According to the committee, prisoners were tortured in the Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib, the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other US military installations. Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) were responsible for the content of the Senate's findings.
The report determined that placing the blame on "a few bad apples," as Bush administration officials attempted to do in the aftermath of the Abu Ghraib scandal, is inappropriate.
Why is it though that I don't think holding my breath on this outcome is a good idea?
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