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Thursday, July 26, 2007

even these two

my polar opposites think king george and his court are wreaking havoc on america. now and for YEARS to come. sure it's only on one issue, but like the previous posting, it's a start. are we brutes and savages? i ask you that

War Crimes and the White House
The Dishonor in a Tortured New 'Interpretation' of the Geneva Conventions


By P.X. Kelley and Robert F. Turner

One of us was appointed commandant of the Marine Corps by President Ronald Reagan; the other served as a lawyer in the Reagan White House and has vigorously defended the constitutionality of warrantless National Security Agency wiretaps, presidential signing statements and many other controversial aspects of the war on terrorism. But we cannot in good conscience defend a decision that we believe has compromised our national honor and that may well promote the commission of war crimes by Americans and place at risk the welfare of captured American military forces for generations to come.
The Supreme Court
held in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld last summer that all detainees captured in the war on terrorism are protected by Common Article 3 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, which prescribes minimum standards of treatment for all persons who are no longer taking an active part in an armed conflict not of an international character. It provides that "in all circumstances" detainees are to be "treated humanely."............

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