Irvine511
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^ no, but they endorse a rethinking and loosening of the rules of traditional "interrogation" techniques, which lead to Abu Ghraib. you're right in a literal sense, but that's a legalistic Cover Your Ass technique.
officially, the president ordered - like a monarch - that, although prisoners did not deserve Geneva protection, they should have it. however, we have memos telling Bush that he has the right to order torture, regardless of any domestic law or international treaty; we have memos defining torture in the most minimal sense; under Rumsfeld's instructions we had torture restrictions loosened at Guantanamo Bay for a few weeks; and, to my mind most telling, an outbreak of torture across all the theaters of war.
the debate, i think, is not about Newsweek but about how this administration has willfully enabled widespread torture, abuse, rape and murder of inmates in American custody. it has done this, in my view deliberately, through intentional mixed messages, and what this has done is destroy America's reputation. can we not call Abu Ghraib evil? isn't Bush "Mr. Moral Clarity"? where's that politically convenient Manichean worldview now?
perhaps some simply trust the administration to be good guys. no fucking way. Bush has evaded and ignored any responsibility and has rewarded all those who presided over this catastrophe. this is shameful record, and will haunt us for years to come.
officially, the president ordered - like a monarch - that, although prisoners did not deserve Geneva protection, they should have it. however, we have memos telling Bush that he has the right to order torture, regardless of any domestic law or international treaty; we have memos defining torture in the most minimal sense; under Rumsfeld's instructions we had torture restrictions loosened at Guantanamo Bay for a few weeks; and, to my mind most telling, an outbreak of torture across all the theaters of war.
the debate, i think, is not about Newsweek but about how this administration has willfully enabled widespread torture, abuse, rape and murder of inmates in American custody. it has done this, in my view deliberately, through intentional mixed messages, and what this has done is destroy America's reputation. can we not call Abu Ghraib evil? isn't Bush "Mr. Moral Clarity"? where's that politically convenient Manichean worldview now?
perhaps some simply trust the administration to be good guys. no fucking way. Bush has evaded and ignored any responsibility and has rewarded all those who presided over this catastrophe. this is shameful record, and will haunt us for years to come.