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...Armed Services Committees to explain his department’s role in the prisoner abuses exposed at Abu Ghraib. In his testimony, he made the pledge that “everyone in Iraq who was a military person” would be “treated subject to the Geneva Conventions...
Little did the American public or Congress know, but a March 2004 memo circulated by the Justice Department was already trying to establish a legal basis for non-Iraqi prisoners seized in Iraq to be secretly transported out of the country, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. According to the Washington Post, the Central Intelligence Agency removed a dozen non-Iraqis over the past 18 months in this...
...standing—the strengthening of which is a vital component in the war on terror itself—and for the sake of America’s soldiers—who may someday be declared unlawful combatants themselves—the Bush administration should stop bending the Geneva Conventions to suit its own ends...
...many ways cemented the reputation of the Bush administration: not as a strong and capable wager of the war on terror, but as a dishonorable rule-breaker that chooses to deceive the entire country and jeopardize the seriousness of America’s signatory status to the Geneva Conventions in order to wage a wrong-headed war against the wrong country...
...writing a key paper that urged a U.S. economic and military buildup to "frustrate the Kremlin design of a world dominated by its will." Yet this early cold warrior became better known for his later efforts at conciliation, most notably a famous "walk in the woods" near Geneva, Switzerland, in 1982 with his Soviet counterpart in an attempt to break an arms-control deadlock. The agreement they reached failed to win approval, but his efforts paved the way for an arms deal between the U.S. and the Soviets in 1987. Though regarded as a godfather of the neoconservative movement, Nitze...