It's maddening. Why does the Bush administration keep forcing policies on the United States military that endanger Americans wearing the nation's uniform - policies that the military does not want, that do not work and that violate standards upheld by the civilized world for decades?
When the Bush administration rewrote the rules for dealing with prisoners after 9/11, needlessly scrapping the Geneva Conventions and American law, it ignored the objections of lawyers for the armed services. Now, heedless of the lessons of Abu Ghraib, the civilians are once again running over the people in uniform. Tim Golden and Eric Schmitt reported yesterday in The Times that the administration is blocking the Pentagon from adopting the language of the Geneva Conventions to set rules for handling prisoners in the so-called war on terror.
Read more here....
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/03/op...3thur1.html?hp
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The war on terror threatens all of our civil liberties. As George W. Bush has pushed his crap on the world leaders in the name of preventing terrorism. He has also created an enviroment in the world that is quickly turning into an international witch hunt.
If we are truely nations based on freedom. Then we must like free people and oppose torture. If no other reason then one day we might find ourselves being labled as "enemies of the state."
Speak up, write letters or if nothing more... Discuss these issues with your family and friends.
Because sometimes in this world... the enemies of the state is the state itself.
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