[Peace-discuss] Ask Congress to Protect the War Crimes Act

[Robert Naiman]

Dear Advocate of a Just Foreign Policy,

As reported today in the Nation
(http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060918/brecher) and last month in the
New York Times and the Washington Post
(http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/issues/warcrimes.html), the Bush
Administration is seeking to weaken the War Crimes Act so that the
abuses such as sexual humiliation of prisoners that were practiced at
Abu Ghraib would no longer be illegal, and Bush Administration
officials would be retroactively immunized from prosecution for these
abuses.

Representative Markey has initiated a letter from Members of Congress
to President Bush in opposition to this effort to weaken the law,
which in addition to being a morally outrageous attack on the Geneva
Conventions and the laws of war, would put American soldiers in danger
when they are in foreign custody, since they rely on the reciprocal
application of these same protections.

Please ask your Representative in Congress to sign this letter using this link:

https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/hq/editValues.jsp?table=campaign&key=4981

Thank you for your activism on behalf of human rights.

Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org