Pretty Good News

by tristero

If Bush travels abroad, he will face the prospect of being prosecuted for torture.

Activists vowed on Monday that former President George W. Bush will face a torture case against him wherever he travels outside the United States.

Human rights groups had planned to lodge a Swiss criminal case against Bush on Monday, before his address to a Jewish charity in Geneva on Feb. 12. Organizers cancelled his speech last weekend, invoking security concerns.

Even better would be for Bush to face torture charges here in the United States. Without doing so, the US is simply being hypocritical in complaining about other countries’ human rights abuses. And other countries know it.

“Bush is a torturer and deserves to be remembered as such,” Gavin Sullivan, counter-terrorism expert at the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, said in a statement.

“He bears ultimate responsibility for authorizing the torture of thousands of individuals at places like Guantanamo and secret CIA ‘black sites’ around the world,” he said.