Justice Dept. Repudiates Memo on Torture
All I need to know I read in the third paragraph of the article. "Bush says the president reserves the right to suspend the Geneva Conventions on treatment of prisoners of war at any time."
Once a treaty is ratified by Congress, I do not feel it is up to the president to pick and choose what parts of that treaty he feels he would like to conform or comply with. We are walking a very thin and dangerous line here. The Geneva Conventions were set up to provide the very basic of human rights to prisoners of war. Once we cross this line, we will have no right or say in how our soldiers are treated when captured by our enemies in war time.
President Bush has repeatedly thumbed his nose at international law and nearly every significant treaty that we as a county have entered into. His foreign policies have placed this country and it's few remaining allies in grave danger.
It is time we as a nation make our voices heard and in November, send this dangerous man back to Texas, where the son of a Bush came from!
Once a treaty is ratified by Congress, I do not feel it is up to the president to pick and choose what parts of that treaty he feels he would like to conform or comply with. We are walking a very thin and dangerous line here. The Geneva Conventions were set up to provide the very basic of human rights to prisoners of war. Once we cross this line, we will have no right or say in how our soldiers are treated when captured by our enemies in war time.
President Bush has repeatedly thumbed his nose at international law and nearly every significant treaty that we as a county have entered into. His foreign policies have placed this country and it's few remaining allies in grave danger.
It is time we as a nation make our voices heard and in November, send this dangerous man back to Texas, where the son of a Bush came from!
posted by Shane at 8:55 AM
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