Monday, June 05, 2006

More Proof We Are Becoming The Nazis We Used To Condemn

Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans "humiliating and degrading treatment," according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.

Full Article, LA Times


This should end any pretense that the US government has any grounds to complain about anything the "bad people" do, since there can now be no question that they too can pick and choose which standards of international law/morality they wish to follow. Just like U.S..


TLC

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