Howdy,
In seiner unendlichen Weissheit hat der unterbelichtete Schimpanse
aus Crawford, Texas einen "w�rdigen" Nachfolger f�r John "die
heidnische Justitia geh�rt verh�llt' gefunden:
" White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, who once described the Geneva
Convention as outdated and "quaint," may soon fill the post left
vacant by John Ashcroft this week"
So viel zum Thema Phosphorbomben. Weiter:
Gonzales also argued that dropping Geneva would allow the president
to "preserve his flexibility" in the war on terror. His reasoning?
That U.S. officials might otherwise be subject to war-crimes
prosecutions under the Geneva Conventions. Gonzales said he feared
"prosecutors and independent counsels who may in the future decide to
pursue unwarranted charges" based on a 1996 U.S. law that bars "war
crimes," which were defined to include "any grave breach" of the
Geneva Conventions. As to arguments that U.S. soldiers might suffer
abuses themselves if Washington did not observe the conventions,
Gonzales argued wishfully to Bush that "your policy of providing
humane treatment to enemy detainees gives us the credibility to
insist on like treatment for our soldiers."
arghhhhh
Ausserdem hatten wir heute noch nicht zum Thema
Bernd
Every cloud has a silver lining (except for the mushroom shaped ones,
which have
a lining of Iridium & Strontium 90)
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