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Monday, November 08, 2004





ShrubCo™ gets bit

The Judiciary is pushing Dumbya, Rumskull, and Asscroft into a corner: Either honor the 3rd Geneva Convention, or abrogate it. You can't try to have it both ways:

A federal judge ruled Monday that President Bush had both overstepped his constitutional bounds and improperly brushed aside the Geneva Conventions in establishing military commissions to try detainees at the United States naval base here as war criminals.

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The conventions oblige the United States to treat Mr. Hamdan as a prisoner of war, the judge said , unless he goes before a special tribunal described in Article 5 of the Third Geneva Convention that determines he is not. A POW is entitled to a court-martial if there are accusations of war crimes but may not be tried before a military commission.


The neo-clowns would like to have a War on Terra®, but don't want to have any actual "prisoners" of said War. They want the world to treat American captives with due consideration of the 3rd Geneva Convention, but don't want to be held to the same standard.

And the Judge told them what they could do with that hypocrisy.

Nevermind that violating the 3rd Geneva Convention negates the ability of American captives to demand fair treatment (the neo-cons don't seem to give a rat's ass what happens to our troops, anyway); the key point here is that the Judiciary is telling Chimpy™ that he can't just up and decide which laws to follow when he feels like it.

Of course, the rightards don't agree:

"By conferring protected legal status under the Geneva Conventions on members of Al Qaeda, the judge has put terrorism on the same legal footing as legitimate methods of waging war."


Well, there you are, then: Terrorism isn't a "legitimate method of waging war", but launching rockets at dozens of unarmed Iraqi civilians "just in case" is perfectly legitimate:



I'm so glad we got that straightened out.


Posted by: Great Cthulhu / <$BlogItemDateTime $>
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