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by Ian Mosley

Everyone who is heartily sick and tired of George W. Bush and his little Zionist neocon friends, from left-liberals to true conservatives to just plain decent people of all stripes, must have occasionally entertained themselves with dreams of Bush somehow being brought to book for his horrible administration, in some kind of trial for war crimes or crimes against humanity. It probably won’t happen, but it looks like Bush may be a bit more worried about it than most people might think.

According to an article in Salon Magazine, Bush has introduced legislation establishing military tribunals to try suspected Muslims. There are a few interesting clauses in the fine print: “The bill does much more than establish tribunals, and…its true impact is not fully appreciated. Among other things, the White House is seeking to ensure that the Geneva Conventions are no longer an enforceable standard for the United States in the conduct of war.” (more…)

by Jeff Davis

I’d like for my readers to sit back for a bit and roll over two words in your minds. “Secret prisons.” Maintained by the United States government, which has now admitted openly that such facilities exist outside the United States. Remember all that right-wing urban legendry from the Seventies and the Eighties, wherein conspiracy theorists either suggested that such institutions existed, or else that they would exist in the near future? And how we all got called “paranoid kooks” for our trouble? Looks like us “kooks” from the old days are having the last laugh.

A recent Reuters news article informs us that “The European Union condemned on Friday the detention of terrorism suspects by the United States in secret overseas prisons, whose existence U.S. President George Bush first acknowledged last week….European nations had held back from criticizing Washington over the matter after it first emerged in media reports last year, and said last December they were satisfied with U.S. statements denying any wrongdoing… Bush publicly acknowledged the CIA held high-level terrorism suspects, including alleged September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, in secret overseas locations.” (more…)