The next question is if he has said " The United States will not use torture from now on" then he is also implicating the Bush administration in the decision to have allowed it over the last few years.
Will they now consider respecting international humanitarian rules too, such as Geneva, and prosecute the people who approved these techniques?
From my point of view, my gov. just approved pay hikes for their staff, they don't even mention mining and energy lobbyists influencing policy but atleast we have withdrawn all combat troops from iraq. Kevin Rudd made it clear in parliament, the war was based on bullshit, so we did something right.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
