The Detainee Bill Letting Cheney & Bush Off Scot-Free

The upcoming legislation on detainees and torture is a complete ruse. The overt part of this bill did not have to be passed now but the hidden part of the bill, which is what this is really all about, did, that is the part that will immunize Cheney/Bush or anyone in government of accountability for violating the US War Crimes Act against tortore or internationally, the Geneva Convention. You see, with the Supreme Court twice rejecting Bush's claim to a right to detainee mistreatment and torture, the heat is on. So now the Bush adminsitration is trying to get out of it, get out of the violations of the War Crimes Act and the Geneva Convention of which they so brazenly insisted they were not violating. They did not have the character or integrity it took to obey it and now they want to get out of accounting for not obeying it. New proposed legislation would allow just that. It is interesting how Bush tried to justify and claim he was commiting no crime but now just as a Democratic congress is possibly at the doorstep he is hastily pushing legislation that would pardon him and his collegues from any prosecution for violating the War Crimes Act, for the illegal treatment and torture of detainees. This legislation is retroactive to 9-11 and, oh well naahhhh!, they are insisting it be passed before congressional adjournment for the elections. Why now before the elections? LOL, what else can one do but laugh out loud? They have to pass this legislation before the elections because a newly elected democratic congress may launch investigations into the truth of it all, investigations that will lead to prosecutions all the way up to Cheney/Bush. And all this from the "Mr. Accountability" republican party. Honor?, Integrity? Not! Sometimes actions speak volumes. Sometimes they are embarrassingly obvious. By the way, for any nation to pass legislation abdicating itself of past war crimes is illegal. Obviously.