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May 20, 2004

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yeah, and it gets more convoluted and legalistic than that--first of all, none of the Iraqi detainees have been designated enemy combatants, so as long as they have been in US custody they should have been fully protected by the Geneva Convention agreements; second, the Bush Administration has been playing a legal game w/ detainees reasoning that if they are held by countries that are not signatories to Geneva, the detainees aren't subject to Geneva protections even if US interogators have access to them while in foreign country captivity. It's the same nauseating line of reasoning that the administration has used w/ regard to Gitmo.


I agree with both TW and Jason's posts on this issue. As many have pointed out before, we are now running an international Gulag.

I see no reason why Al Queda and Taliban prisoners should be exempt from the Geneva Convention. Certainly the argument doesn't hold for the Taliban -- they were a government (albeit a reprehensible one) beforehand.

Did you guys see this business of the 120,000 "likely terrorists" identified by some database company? And of course the Oregon lawyer who was picked up and held w/o charges (although as I understand it that wasn't under the Patriot Act).

We have gone through this periodically in our past.. the Alien and Sedition Acts, the Palmer Raids, the McCarthy witchtrials, the Japanese Internment in WWII (sadly, by FDR).

I wonder how bad it will get before it gets better.

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