Bush Pardoned Himself for War Crimes

Here's the video from CNN telling about the bill that passed the House. I don't know if it passed the Senate. I'll check it out and let you know.

UPDATE: When you watch the video, you find out that this bill wasn't something passed in the last few days. It was passed in mid-2006 before the Congress was switched over to the Democrats.

This being the case, I have to assume that the bill Cafferty is referring to is the Military Commissions Act, which is one of the most shameful pieces of legislation in American history. This is the same bill that eliminated habeas corpus, which is a fancy way of describing the right to say, "Hey! You got the wrong guy!"

The habeas corpus aspect of the Military Commissions Act is well known to the public, but the immunity portion was news to me. Unfortunately, the immunity for Bush and his co-conspirators that Cafferty refers to is there, probably because the bill came into existence to protect Rumsfeld's war criminal ass.

The Military Commissions Act came into being after Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's ex-driver, got thrown into Guantanamo Bay in 2002. He challenged his status as an "enemy combatant" in Hamden vs. Rumsfeld and won. The Supreme Court ruled that the Bush administration's military commission system violated both United States and international laws.

So, in typical Bush fashion, he got his Republican goons in Congress (remember: this was in 2006) to change the law. Not only are the Bush administration's universally illegal activities now legal in the United States for the future, they included a provision granting immunity to the administration officials who authorized torture pre-Military Commissions Act and to all the mindless followers who carried out their immoral orders.

With immunity for giving the orders, Rumsfeld is off the hook for the case he already lost and Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Condi, Powell, and every other person tainted by the Bush administration is safe from cases that should have been brought in the future.

The founders are rolling over in their graves.