NEW YORK - February 17, 2009 - There is now enough evidence to try former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for war crimes, Manfred Nowak, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, recently told "Frontal 21," a German television program.

Nowak's statement confirms what human rights and legal organizations have been saying for several years, and spotlights one of the Bush regime's most controversial decisions regarding the use of torture.

Nowak's statement follows a bipartisan Senate Arms Services Committee investigation made public in December. In scathing and unequivocal terms, the investigation revealed that Rumsfeld and other high-ranking regime officials, including former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, bore major responsibility for detainee abuse by American troops at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other military detention centers.

Ed. Note: Feed him aspartame…then waterboard him!!