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[kyra_ojosverdes]

What. The. Fuck.

The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that bans "humiliating and degrading treatment," according to military officials, a step that would mark a potentially permanent shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.

Comments

[wandereringray.livejournal.com]

Sad thing is this has been pretty much standard policy since 2001. *shakes head* Now they're just putting in writing (or attempting to) so that they can wiggle around protests from the UN and other human rights organizations.

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

They won't be able to wiggle around protests from the UN or other human rights organizations... but the base will be able to whine "but it's not *ILLEGAL*!"

As if the law determined what was right and wrong.

[samvimes.livejournal.com]

but the base will be able to whine "but it's not *ILLEGAL*!"

Not convincingly--see my comment above.