This is "very very embarrassing and humiliating for a country to have a previous president not prosecuted by his own people but unwilling to go abroad because of he might be prosecuted by the World Court or by one of these countries under the principle of universal jurisdiction," McGovern added.
In the US "we have a very very unusual and unprecedented situation where the president of the United States has bragged about ordering a felony, ordering a prosecutable offense," he went on to say.
"The reason he does that is because he thinks that no US court will move against him," McGovern argued.
In the memoir, Bush recalls that when the CIA asked him whether it could proceed with waterboarding of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged plotter of the 9/11 attacks, he replied "Damn right," The Washington Post reported.
Bush justifies the decision by claiming Mohammed was suspected of knowing about future terrorist plots against the United States.
The 43rd president of the United States said he would make the same decision again if he believed it would save lives. ASH/MGH/HRF  http://www.presstv.ir/detail/149730.html

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