The Bush Administration's Most Despicable Act - Joe Klein Time Jan. 08

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The Bush Administration's Most Despicable Act
By Joe Klein Thursday, Jan. 08, 2009

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1870319,00.html

"This is not the America I know," President George W. Bush said after the first, horrifying pictures of U.S. troops torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq surfaced in April 2004. The President was not telling the truth. "This" was the America he had authorized on Feb. 7, 2002, when he signed a memorandum stating that the Third Geneva Convention — the one regarding the treatment of enemy prisoners taken in wartime — did not apply to members of al-Qaeda or the Taliban. That signature led directly to the abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay. It was his single most callous and despicable act. It stands at the heart of the national embarrassment that was his presidency.

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When will this EVER come before the law of our land?

:argh:

[lame54]

1. Shock and Awe was pretty horrible...

Carpet bombing civilians is despicable

[Poiuyt]

2. Starting a war for political purposes is about the worst thing a leader can do, but

I agree that torture fellow human beings brings it to a whole new level. And I'm really troubled by the number of Americans who didn't have a problem with it.

[Avalux]

3. Wow - very strong stance from Joe Klein. Good for him.

I heard him state in an interview - he doesn't think accountability will happen. He thinks an option is for Obama to pardon Buscho for war crimes; at least then the stigma would be attached to them forever. Why pardon people for something if it didn't occur?