"Dismissing" all international laws have consequences with our allies.

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Victory After the War Is Hardly Moral
Angelique van Engelen
Contentclix.com
Amsterdam, Netherlands
December 15, 2005



It is hardly possible that recent revelations highlighting grave errors in the handling of the Iraq war are not going to have an impact on the future plans of U.S. policymakers. Analysts worldwide are looking out for signs of change indicating that a more moral approach toward international law has been adopted. Just how feasible such change is will likely become clear over the next few months.

It did not take the Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice long after her landing in Europe to admit that “mistakes have been made” in handling the war and that they will be rectified. But she failed to inform Europeans during her press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel what exactly the upshot is going to be. No hinting at imminent departures. No word of an inquiry even. That’s a bit puzzling to say the least. Europe’s outrage over some 300 C.I.A. rendition flights landing here and there, carrying terror suspects to a number of highly unspecified resorts for “questioning,” is accompanied by relentless criticism within the United States itself as talk of the war’s legality reaches unprecedented levels.

Even politicians formerly firmly entrenched in the pro-war camp are admitting publicly to a change of mind. Among the more damaging sea changes occurred in Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff at the State Department, who in an interview recently on the BBC program Newshour accused the Bush administration of mishandling the war in Iraq. He revealed details of the “alternative decision making process” controlled by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Richard Cheney that endorsed an anything goes approach in the interrogation of terror suspects. It is a known fact that this has lead to the “questionable deaths” of at least 90 suspects.

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1. God how I pray for a dem majority in 06 so that these guys can be

taken down as well they should be.

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2. Everyday breaks a new story that I believe should take them down,

yet they survive. I really don't understand how otherwise reasonably intelligent people can continue to support this regime.