"US war criminality is justice institutionalised" Pulitzer Prize Winner

[kpete]

Herbert Bix, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his landmark biography of wartime emperor Hirohito, said he believed US aerial bombings and alleged use of torture in Afghanistan and Iraq constituted war crimes.

"The current American rampage in Iraq and elsewhere, not to mention the Bush administration's threats of war against Iran, so clearly replicates Imperial Japan during the period when its leaders willfully disregarded international law and pursued the diplomacy of force," Bix said during a visit to Tokyo.

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"US war criminality is justice institutionalised, as Japan's once was," Bix said.

"In today's America, torture is not only standard battlefield practice in the so-called war on terror. Torture is celebrated in American popular culture as evidenced by the popularity of '24,' a TV programme in which the hero confronts a ticking bomb scenario... designed to justify torture."

more at:
http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Scholar_links_Bush_s_US_and_Hirohit_10312007.html

[The Magistrate]

1. Unfortunately, Ma'am, Mr. Blix Is On To Something

He is particularly correct regarding the use of torture on prisoners. That is simply a fact, and it is a fact that it is ordered from the highest levels of government, and sheltered from prosecution even under the national laws in place that it violates.