The Jewish charity group, United Israel Appeal, said it was canceling Bush's invitation on security grounds, not due to legal action. "The calls to demonstrate were sliding into dangerous terrain," Robert Equey, a lawyer for the organization, said. Protesters urged attendees of the rally to bring a shoe, recalling the moment when an Iraqi journalist threw one at Bush.
The human rights groups had a different interpretation. "Whatever Bush or his hosts say, we have no doubt he canceled his trip to avoid our case," the Center for Constitutional Rights and others said in a statement. "He's avoiding the handcuffs," Reed Brody, counsel for Human Rights Watch, told Reuters.
Recall, Bush has acknowledged giving authorization to waterboard 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (waterboarding is a torture tactic that violates both U.S. statute and international treaties to which the U.S. is a signatory):
rest at http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/06/bush-torture-swiss/
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