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