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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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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?