Tuesday, November 29, 2005

more torture

BBC article
interesting, former aide to colin powell has somewhat accused cheney of war crimes. This is only suprising because he had the balls to say it, no one is suprised to hear that cheney was advocating torture. the part I found interesting was that he said there were two sides, powell and friends wanted to stay within international law and follow the geneva convention in the detention of the accused. Cheney and his posse just wanted to throw out the geneva convention alltogether. So Bush made an agreement to follow geneva except for al-Qaeda and similar to al-Qaeda. Ok to make any exception to the geneva convention is a war crime. great big freakin dot period end of conversation. Ill repeat that, the geneva convention defined what was legal in times of war and what was not. therefore if you make any exception to those laws you have now broken international law. so once again Bush commited a war crime if he allowed the use of tortue on anyone. oh and then the article goes on to say that Cheney agreed to the comprimise and then just turned around and did what he wanted to anyway. but once again I had pretty well assumed Cheney had commited war crimes a while ago so the part I am interested in is that it sounds to me like Bush did as well.

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