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Dear Attorney General Designate Holder,
We the undersigned citizens of the United States hereby formally petition you to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate and prosecute any and all government officials who have participated in War Crimes.
These crimes are being euphemistically referred to as “abusive interrogation techniques” by such respected figures as Senator John McCain. These are euphemisms for torture. Torture is a War Crime. Waterboarding is a War Crime. The CIA has admitted waterboarding detainees. Recently, Vice President Cheney has brazenly admitted authorizing the program that lead to waterboarding, other forms of torture too numerous to list, and ultimately, the deaths by homicide of detainees.
As Major General Antonio Taguba, the Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison has stated:
“After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes. The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.”
The Washington Post recently summarized the Senate Armed Services Committee Report on detainee treatment thusly:
A bipartisan panel of senators has concluded that former defense secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials bear direct responsibility for the harsh treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and that their decisions led to more serious abuses in Iraq and elsewhere.
We the undersigned citizens demand a full and thorough investigation immediately upon your taking office. This investigation should be pursued no matter where it may lead and no matter what the political implications may be. To this end, we remind you that you work not on behalf of or for the President or the Congress, but for the People of the United States of America and for Justice itself.
The United States is a representative democracy. The actions of our government officials are done in the name of its citizens. War Crimes have been committed in our name. Torture has been done in our name. The only way to clear our name of War Crimes is to repudiate them through the aggressive prosecution of each and every person involved to the full extent of the law through the appointment of a Special Prosecutor.
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I’ll get giddy from being so near the top of the petition! : )
i signed!
congrats buhdy. well-done.
and Edger, fabulous logo.
Just kidding 😉
Off to sign right now!
while slurping coffee and getting ready for work I signed. Don’t know which number I was.
This whole protestant worth ethic thing really isn’t my bag. Can we found a break away lazy nation?
Take a look at the first page of the google search, at #’s 4,5,6 and 7!
Petition Special Prosecutor
Looks super!
Thanks, Edger, for the great looking badge!
I’ve been there, signed (52nd)!
Next, I will e-mail to many, many folks.
Will also try to get the badge up in a couple of places!
This is GOOD!
budhy, thank you so much for pulling this together!!! so glad you didn’t wait fo rme to finish the semester. finally did yesterday after over two weeks of only 3-4 hours of sleep a night and no sleep the last. okay,now it’s our job to get the word out to signers. now that i’ve had a good night’s sleep and returned to the world i’m on it. thanks, buhdy, brobin, edger, nl, and everyone else who wrote and edited and researched!
i put this in edger’s diary (twice), but want to cover all the bases. just spent twenty minutes listening to eric holder address the american constitution society this past summer and am feeling so inspired that this is the man who will receive this petition. sanity in the doj again at last! here’s the link to the speech: http://acslaw.org/node/6720
now I am wondering which sites we are in touch with to add the badge to their home pages. I assume someone’s in touch with Big Orange? But what about these:
Crooks & Liars
firedoglake
thinkprogress
the carpetbagger report
talkingpointsmemo
huffpo?
and I know I’m forgetting a lot of others. I don’t personally know people at any of these…but does someone here know the appropriate contacts? How do we spread the meme?
…buhdy’s (our) letter, Edger’s badge, and the link to Fertig’s Democrats.com on to Tim Carpenter and Laura Bonham at PDA. I hope they’ll use it and embed the badge. Don’t know. I’ll let you know what I hear!
Nice job buhdy…everyone. Kudos to all.
1000+ signatures yesterday!
And I just noticed this update on democrats.com
hee hee – those pesky bloggers … but at least we got his attention!
one whit, Buhdy, but i made a decision awhile back to withdraw all of my energy and attention from BushInc.
i understand and agree with the accountability argument, but i won’t be joining in.
it’s a personal decision. it may not be the ‘right’ decision in the broad, grand scheme of things, and really, probably isn’t, but it is the right personal decision. i starting fighting this man in 1999. i gave everything i had at the time. at a certain point, i stopped. there are other places to put my energy.
i wish you all luck and success!!!!!