Lawyer Wants Bush on Witness Stand Over Iraq Abuse
/President Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld should take the witness stand at the trial of a U.S. soldier charged with abusing prisoners in Iraq, the soldier's lawyer said on Monday. Policies adopted in Bush's "war on terror" created a climate encouraging cruelty, said lawyers for U.S. soldiers accused of subjecting detainees to sexual humiliation and physical abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. [more] Pictured above: Talkleft has reported that these posters have been plastered all over San Francisco. [more]
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