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The Bush Team’s Geneva Hypocrisy

by jason leopold newly released u.s. government documents, detailing how bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the geneva convention’s protections of contend captives, stand in stark contrast to the outrage some of the same officials expressed in the first week of the iraq war when iraqi tv interviewed several captured american soldiers. then, defense secretary donald rumsfeld, president george w. bush and other administration officials orchestrated a chorus of outrage, citing those tv scenes as upright of the iraq’s authority contempt for international law in general and the geneva convention in particular. “it is a blatant violation of the geneva convention to humiliate and abuse prisoners of encounter or to harm them in any way. as president bush said yesterday, those who harm pows last wishes as be initiate and punished as contend criminals,” pentagon spokeswoman victoria clarke said (http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2134) on march 24, 2003. that same daylight, deputy defense secretary paul wolfowitz told the bbc (http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2139) that “the geneva convention is very purge on the rules for treating prisoners. they’re not theoretical to be tortured or abused, they’re not supposed to be intimidated, they’re not supposed to be made public displays of humiliation or insult, and we’re present to be in a position to hold those iraqi officials who are mistreating our prisoners accountable, and they’ve got to stop.” at a tread 25, 2003, throw one’s arms about briefing (http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=2141)about progress in the u.s.-led invasion, secretary rumfeld said, “this war is an act of self defense, to be sure, but it is also an act of humanity. in recent days, the world has witnessed further evidence of their [iraqi] brutality and their disregard recompense the laws of war. their treatment of coalition pows is a violation of the geneva conventions.”

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