The White house just lost their most recent case regarding "detainees" before the Supreme Court.
And I want to be the first in line to commend the President. It takes a big man to extend basic human rights to a total stranger. Normally when I meet a stranger, especially one that looks a bit funny, I try to kill him. Unless of course she's pretty, in which case I might rape her before I kill her. And dont even get me started on guys with dark skin and beards; I always want to torture those guys before I kill them.
Not only is the president being overly gracious about honoring the Geneva Convention on basic treatment of human beings in captivity, but he is even willing to honor our court system and the separation of powers enshrined in our Constitution. Wow! I mean how many people actually obey the laws of our country voluntarily? The President's selfless actions and leadership have inspired me to stop stealing from work and lying to people on principle.
Yes sir, it is a testament to the President's character that he can accept things and move on. That is a healthy thing we should all aspire to. I mean, first he tried to do things in secret but when people found out, he moved on. Then he tried to deny it was going on at all, but eventually he moved on. Then he tried to fight it in the courts and when that failed, he moved on.
Im with Bush. Better to make errors of Commission than errors of Omission. If you cant do things in secret and you cant do them legally, well there is always doing things in secret.
Administration Bows to Court Ruling On Geneva Conventions
The Bush Administration will comply with the Supreme Court's ruling that Gitmo detainees are entitled to treatment under Geneva Conventions Common Article 3. (tip) The action comes in the wake of growing US opposition to the entanglement in Iraq: two-thirds of Americans are calling for withdrawal, with 31 percent calling for an "immediate" withdrawal.
In 2002, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said that detainees "do not have any rights under the Geneva Convention." The Telegraph also dubbed the Geneva Conventions concession an about face because
In January 2002 a White House memo stated that the "new paradigm" of the fight against terrorism "renders obsolete" the Geneva Conventions' "strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions". The new policy does not apply to the detainees being held by the CIA in a network of secret prisons across the globe.
Most Were Not Active Terrorists
This is a reminder, yet again, that traditional media continue to ignore two studies -- using the government's own data -- that show that most of the detainees at Gitmo are not affiliated with a terrorist organization nor were they captured in the midst of terrorist activity.
In fact, data show that bounties were paid and few questions asked for most of those imprisoned at Gitmo. (tip)
