>>Actually, the only imprpoer interrogation methods was what Al Jazeera said and the NY Times and WAPO echoed. In reality, terrorists rounded up have no protection from the Geneva Convention. They could have attached wires, ran 1000000 volts through them, soaked them in urine and then ripped off their heads and filled their severed necks with pig entrails. <<
The Bush administration that they have the right to treat people inhumanely as echoed in your post because they have decided to classify them in such a way that they can claim they fall into no category and therefore have no rights, will, in my opinion, be remembered a low point in American ethics.
Any method that you use get to justify systematic torture is wrong. It can be spun any way you like. You can use international law or American law - but it is still wrong. And the world knows it and that hurts us far more than any one one incorrect article.
In addition to being wrong it undermines our justification for being the world's policeman so it has great negqtive practical consequences too.
"The Bush administration that they have the right to treat people inhumanely as echoed in your post because they have decided to classify them in such a way that they can claim they fall into no category and therefore have no rights, will, in my opinion, be remembered a low point in American ethics.
Any method that you use get to justify systematic torture is wrong. It can be spun any way you like. You can use international law or American law - but it is still wrong. And the world knows it and that hurts us far more than any one one incorrect article.
In addition to being wrong it undermines our justification for being the world's policeman so it has great negqtive practical consequences too."
Don't agree. The fact that we do abide by the Geneva Convention is what is in fact harming us. We abide by laws and punish those who abuse them, as Abu Gharib proved. The US military was already investigating the crime when the MSM decided that this would be a good way to hammer Bush in an election year.
That the ACLU and International Peace groups gives terrorists a platform against the US is the travesty. The Geneva Convention is specific. Unfortunately we are the only nation that abides by it since we are one of the only humane nations left on the planet.
The Newsweek story as well as Rathergate just confirmed what everyone already knows; the media is out to get the administration and they will go to any length, even compromising their journalistic integrity to do it.