Amnesty International Calls For Bush’s Arrest During Trip To Africa For “Torturing” Al-Qaeda Suspects…
Not going to happen, Bush is widely loved across Africa.
Via Fox News:
With former President George W. Bush traveling this week in Africa to promote AIDS relief efforts and to raise awareness of cervical and breast cancer, Amnesty International is urging three nations to arrest him during his visit for “crimes under international law.”
The world’s largest human rights group said Thursday that “there is enough evidence in the public domain” to justify either Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia arresting the former president during his expected visit to the region, which started Thursday and lasts until Monday. Bush is traveling with his wife, Laura, and daughter, Barbara.
The three nations should investigate “his alleged involvement in and responsibility for torture,” the group said.
“All countries to which George W. Bush travels have an obligation to bring him to justice for his role in torture,” said Matt Pollard, senior legal adviser for the American branch of AI.
Saying the president’s visit is notable for its public awareness campaign on women’s cancer, the group said the humanitarian nature of the mission does not “lessen the damage to the fight against torture caused by allowing someone who has admitted to authorizing waterboarding to travel without facing the consequences prescribed by law.”
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Have these fools ever heard of “Diplomatic Immunity?”
I’m pretty sick of hearing all this whining about water boarding by Bush when bullets in the brain approved by Obama are cheered.
Yeah, he should have killed them all in drone attacks.
Like their terrorist and leftist buddies AI always goes for targets they know
won’t kill them.
They are the enemy within.
Hey Matt,
We got a new toy just for you………now what was your address?
America Against Idiots
Where is your indignation to the assasination of OBL? Was he not human?
Double Standard, just like all liberals….
Some more commie bastards heard from!
Funny how I never hear AI or any other libtard socialist group calling for the prosecution of commies, russians, arabs, muslims, etc for their documented human rights violations. And I don’t hear them calling for the arrest of Obama who is continuing the policies of George W. Bush. Strange. It’s almost like AI is some front partisan group for the democrap party.
I guess we should just pretend that all the info aquired by waterboarding didn’t make the killing of bin Laden possible?
That’s what O and his bots are doing anyway, and while we’re at it, lets pretend Panetta didn’t say as much.
Africans like Bush because he sent them tens of billions of US taxpayer dollars for public health, particularly AIDS, while millions of American citizens had no healthcare.
At heart, he’s another open-borders globalist.
Amnesty International, instead of going after the US president that has done more for Africa than any other for imagined atrocities, why don’t you get involved in stopping ACTUAL atrocities that are being perpetrated against Christians in an escalating manner by al Qaeda-linked Boko Haram in Nigeria?
Amnesty International–working night and day to seek justice for Muslim criminals while ignoring non-Muslim victims
Bush did more for the Africans than any other leader of any country.
But of course, if he defended OUR country against the muzz.. well he should be arrested!
I would love to know who funds AI? Anyone know? If it’s Americans, which I strongly suspect, Congress needs to address that issue. After all, the next to be arrested could be Obama.
Shut up you loser you. Get a life.
God, you leftard pinko statist commie bastards pretending to be normal by cloaking yourselves in some alleged moral organization are annoying.
Go away. Better yet, read all the comments here first, realize you are a useless tool, then go away.
Torture? Al-Qaeda has no idea what a pair of pliers and a blow torch can do, if in the right hands. A little water ain’t fucking torture. The next jagoff that says it is to me is going to find out the difference.
Amnesty International is a left-wing fringe group anyway. They deplored the execution of Saddam Hussein, while claiming that human rights violations have increased following the U.S. invasion in 2003. Reading their site, you get a real feeling that have a “can’t we all get along?” and “everyone shares responsibility” mentality that fails to take into account that there are evil powerful people and evil corrupt regimes and religions that don’t give a tinker’s damn what they do to have power. Some of the AI analysis of human rights is okay but some violations in Communist and Muslim countries seem to be treated tepidly compared to their rhetoric against Bush water boarding scum to save lives. Oh and not a word about Muslims targeting Christians in Egypt, Iran or Nigeria. In Sudan “all sides to the conflict continue to commit violations of international humanitarian law” I read that to mean that the Christians defending themselves against Muslim attacks are equally at fault. Oh and Israel is a bad boy too. Why didn’t they call for Ahmidinajhad’s arrest when he came to New York?
Screw Amnesty International.
If they cared abt. human suffering they would be going after the head chopping muzz who are torturing Christians and Jews in the M.E.
Amnesty International needs to lose its tax exempt status
Amnesty International…
the International in their name…gives away their goals…
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Amnesty International Votes for “Defensive” Jihad
http://frontpagemag.com/2010/04/23/amnesty-international-votes-for-defensive-jihad/
FP: Andy McCarthy, welcome to Frontpage Interview.
Amnesty International supports individuals such as Former Gitmo detainee Moazzam Begg. Tell us what exactly is going on here.
McCarthy: Jamie, it’s great to be here, as always.
People need to understand what Amnesty International is: a hard-left political organization. It is one of the bastions of what John Fonte calls transnational progressivism, and it’s agenda is a post-sovereign world theoretically governed by an abstraction AI calls “international humanitarian law” but, as a practical matter, ruled by the leftists who make up what this purported corpus of “law” means as they go along (just as they make up what “social justice” and other such abstractions mean to suit the exigencies of the moment).
This is not to say that AI is without authentic human rights activists. There are many people who are dawn to AI because of its admirable historic mission to pressure authoritarian governments that are serial human-rights violators. But as an institution, AI is a just another leftist hack, and the country it most chooses to pressure is the United States, for the American people’s great crimes of being free and self-determining and being uninterested in a post-sovereign order, and for pursuing our interests in the world, including our national security.
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http://frontpagemag.com/2010/04/23/amnesty-international-votes-for-defensive-jihad/
Amnesty International supports individuals such as Former Gitmo detainee Moazzam Begg. Tell us what exactly is going on here.
McCarthy: Moazzam Begg is a Taliban jihadist and former Gitmo detainee. The invaluable Tom Joscelyn (of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies) has done a great deal of work exposing him — such as in this Weekly Standard essay, which collects other Begg links. Much like CAIR, Begg has discovered that if you swaddle your Islamist activism in the rhetoric of human rights, and be sure to target the United States and Israel as the cause of the world’s problem, the hack leftist organizations will flock to you regardless of the atrocities you’re willing to commit or defend. Thus has AI made common cause with Begg and his British organization, “Cageprisoners.” That this should happen is not at all surprising to anyone who does a comparative study of leftist ideology and Islamist ideology — which is the subject of a book I’ve just finished, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, to be released by Encounter Books in late May.
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Amnesty International…artificial intelligence…pay your jizyah!
So, torturing Al Queda terrorists is….bad?
Nothing new here in this story.
Move along.
Just another highly educated professional idiot too clueless to know better than to stand in public and open his mouth forever removing any doubt to his foolishness.
Really…move along now.
What is AI doing about Syria, the slave trade in the Middle east, Tibet or a hundred other hell holes? What are they doing for Egyptian Copts or Iraqi Christians? Zip, nada , nothing. They are western poseurs with a position set without a moral compass. Fuck ‘em.
According to what I see noted on thread above, it would be far toooooooo much to expect that Amnesty Internat’l get it’s priorities figured out.
Whether a person is/was a supporter of GWB, in all honesty I’d just have to say he simply looks huggable. I don’t, if ever, say that about President’s! Or just anybody, either!
If Bush was samrt, hed stay in the US. Too many damn lunatics out there who would try to grab him. Countries like Spain.
Theres nothing so pressing he has to leave the US for. Stay here, bud. Where you are safe from the crazies, at least somewhat.