The Supreme Court ruled US President George Bush had overstepped his powers by ordering military trials for terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay.
The court found the tribunals violate both US military law and the Geneva Convention...
So does this make him a War criminal...
2006-06-29 16:27:03 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
If people can't be tried for new crimes look at Australia David Hicks case....
2006-06-29 16:37:30 · update #1
For this crime & the long list of his other war crimes.
Nothing can stick to our teflon pres. This & every other
atroscity will just slip right off him. Disturbing.
2006-06-29 17:59:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. You can only be a war criminal if you do something attrocious like kill people. Making a mistake on classifying prisoners as enemy combatants rather than regular prisoners when there is no precedence is not THAT attrocious.
Although, I would like the president to face more heat than he has on this-- if his administration was so sure that these men were guilty (which they have said time and time again that these men were), then why would they go to all this trouble to delay their trials and to try them in military tribunals? Wouldn't it have been easier just to treat them as ordinary criminals as a default? Then their rights wouldn't have been infringed....but I guess that would make too much sense:)
2006-06-29 16:34:19 · answer #2 · answered by Princess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, unfortunately. This is mainly due to the ex post facto clause (after the fact). Basically, an individual cannot be charged of a crime after a new law or decision is passed that did not exist beforehand.
2006-06-29 16:32:45 · answer #3 · answered by phattyfatt 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neo cons are attempting to rigidity their time table down the throats of the yankee public. The structure is only a trivial previous paper for them. The Neo Cons are conscious that grassroots anybody isn't into their way of wondering so for this reason they're set to cheat the widely used public out of it really is will on the balloting cubicles this coming fall election. Dick Cheney is irrelevant. u.s. that's your awaken call!
2016-11-15 11:02:59 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That only re-itterates the fact that he should be considered a war criminal. Have you heard of "The Asses of Evil?" Just a clue, GW is one of them.
2006-07-03 23:15:10 · answer #5 · answered by I know!! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋