The U.S. has not fomally renounced the Geneva Conventions, we simply violate them at will:
Although the U.S. government would not dare to formally renounce the Geneva Conventions, the normalization of deviance has effectively replaced them with elastic standards of behavior and accountability whose main purpose is to shield senior U.S. military officers and civilian officials from accountability for war crimes.
I remember every night in the mid or late 90's listening to the VOA and BBC World Service that Serbia, led by Slobodan Milosevic were committing the most atrocious of war crimes in Yugoslavia. Milosevic was, we were told, worse than "Hitler". Clinton was in the forefront of slanderous attacks on Milosevic blaming him for the violence in Bosnia and Kosovo, Milosevic's evil justifying the US bombing and destruction of Serbia.
Iraq is no stranger to war crimes, but this time the war crime was committed by our allies that we give weapons to.
President Obama may want to "Move On" and "Look Forward" but the British don't seem to have the same tendency.
of a slap on the wrist.
From the LA Times:
Juan Cole has appeared at several NetRoots meetups, long before the sell-out nature of the great orange Satan became so visible. He is one of the finest students and writers about the Muddle East that I have had the pleasure to meet. Today's article is by his contributor, Rebecca Gordon, who just authored Not al-Qaeda: Abu Zubayda as Bush’s Mengele Experiment
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Rev. Gary Davis - Slow Drag / Cincinnati Flow Rag
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