he Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S. officials and a copy of the amendments.
Officials say the amendments would alter a U.S. law passed in the mid-1990s that criminalized violations of the Geneva Conventions, a set of international treaties governing military conduct in wartime. The conventions generally bar the cruel, humiliating and degrading treatment of wartime prisoners without spelling out what all those terms mean.
"We will fight to declare the Geneva Convetions invalid - but not because we wish to violate them. Honest."
"We will try to make torture illegal, but not because we want to torture people. Honest."
"We will weaken the laws governing war crimes, but not because we are war criminals. Honest."
When will the press and the Congress stand up and loudly and clearly call this scumbag what he OBVIOUSLY is?
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