Bush puts CIA prisons under Geneva Conventions

Reuters ^ | July 20, 2007 | David Morgan

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush, under fire over the treatment of CIA detainees, on Friday ordered that agency interrogators comply with the Geneva Conventions against torture.

Five years after he exempted al Qaeda and Taliban members from the Geneva provisions, Bush signed an executive order requiring the CIA to comply with prohibitions against "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" as set down in the conventions' Common Article 3.

Human rights activists criticized Bush's action, saying it did not go far enough to eliminate dangerous interrogation techniques.

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A week old, but, here it is.

I searched and didn't see it posted here.

I bet McPain's happy.

[Killborn]

Codification of the United States’ long time unofficial policy towards the enemy in wartime. Any enemy that the US fights is treated according to the Geneva Convention and certain parts of the US Bill of Rights (freedom of worship, immunity from cruel and unusual punishment, etc). So what the President did is make an unofficial policy official.

Whether this should be done, however, is a matter of opinion.

[in hoc signo vinces]

Well...we are the good guys, and sometimes it’s hard being the good guys.

[dfwgator]

"I NEVER HEARD OF IT!"

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Whether this should be done, however, is a matter of opinion.

IMO, he shouldn't have.

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Fighting islamofacists with kid gloves and Geneva convention rules is gonna get us killed. If you see a rabid dog coming at you you don’t coddle it, you kill it.

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I don’t think this was right at all. How do you fight against someone who’s killing has no rules?

[wastedyears]

Well this is great.

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Isn’t it just. What’s next, support of the ICC?

[Beckwith]

Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest are not signatories to the Geneva Conventions and any reading of the Conventions clearly shows they have no protection under them.

They should be summarily executed in the field.

[wastedyears]

Wolverines!

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Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and the rest are not signatories to the Geneva Conventions and any reading of the Conventions clearly shows they have no protection under them.

But it applies to them none the less. Our hands are tied. They wear no uniform of a country so I fail to see why they are protected under the GC.

They should be summarily executed in the field.

Agreed!

[Shots]

Bad choice Bush Made there very bad. They should not be afforded the rights of Geneva convention because they do not honor them and they do not wear uniforms as required by the GC.

[EEDUDE]

“What’s next, support of the ICC?”

I’d say that’s a good guess.

Being politically correct may get us all killed.

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Agreed, a very bad choice. Kill them on the field, take the GC out of the equation.

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Being politically correct may get us all killed.

That needed to be repeated.

[Para-Ord.45]

NAZIs caught out of uniform and arreted were given a trial

and shot in the morning.

The USA will destroy itself from within and that,

is a gaurantee.

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The USA will destroy itself from within and that,

is a gaurantee.

It breaks my heart to admit it but you're absolutely correct.

[iopscusa]

There is no way to help the Bush boat is leaking so badly...before 11/08 GW will have signed a whole mess of International (UN/Socialist) Treaties...it is a tragedy!

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This is not the man I voted for. ‘08 will not come fast enough. How much damage will he leave behind him is the question now?