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Public support for the war was close to the tipping point when images surfaced of U.S. troops giving highly unconventional readings of the Geneva Conventions at Abu Ghraib. In an instant, a handful of Army troopers and their military-intelligence minders had put at risk one of the last remaining justifications for invasion in the first place: to help the Iraqi people. Watching it all unfold, it has been hard to dismiss the fear that the U.S. not only might be failing to make America safer but might be doing the opposite. Republicans following Bush's shrinking numbers this month...
...legal under strict readings of international law. The Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment is perhaps the most relevant legal baseline, and it was interpreted by the first Bush Administration to mean that detainees should be protected from cruel and unusual punishment. The Geneva Conventions are also quite clear: "Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to any unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind." Then again, the Geneva Conventions also require that prisoners be paid a daily wage. Much of the language is too utopian...
...Third Geneva Convention forbids subjecting POWs to "cruel treatment and torture, outrages upon personal dignity and humiliating treatment." U.S. officials say Iraqi and Taliban captives are covered by the convention but al-Qaeda members are unlawful combatants and thus not covered. The convention says tribunals must decide a prisoner's status...
...shortage in the face of so daunting a challenge as Iraq poses. And as for the violation of American values, we must recalculate the cost of the post-9/11 instinct to change the rules we play by, detain whomever we need to, forget due process and forgo the Geneva Convention. If this is indeed a fight to the death, what is it we are fighting for, if not the values we seem so ready to sacrifice on the grounds that this is a different kind of war? There will be other causes and threats, and we will need...
...race so TV commentators could easily explain and viewers could easily see the differences. Jean-Marie quit his job and took Bergonzoli, a colleague, with him. In 1998 the pair launched Dartfish in an old chocolate factory in Fribourg, a 900-year-old city east of Geneva. Dartfish's technology gained notice when NBC used it on skiing telecasts during the 2002 Winter Olympics. The company also sold StroMotion to TNT, which has shown NBA players gliding through the air like ghosts...