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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.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_nymphette_/]

merciful god.

Impeach him.

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

Was there ever a time when people accepted that the only time a moral position had meaning was if it was held to when tested?

Hey, newsflash for the idiotic assholes out there: yes, we were attacked on 9/11. And that means that if we start abandoning our principles, it proves that we never actually had any, because we were only willing to hold to them while they were easy, while no one had any strong temptation to abandon them.

[nephthys510.livejournal.com]

This pisses me off no end and sent me into a blind rage when I saw it.

What the HELL is happening to my country??

Dear God, make it stop before we are all destroyed.

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

This is not the America we knew...

[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.

So um

[themagdalen.livejournal.com]

we won't be outraged when furriners do this stuff to U.S. troops, right?
and civilian hostages?

'cause after all we wrote ourselves out of that part of the treaty?

is the not-so-bad-kind-of-torture fair game for all sides now?