{"id":1392,"date":"2003-03-23T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-23T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2003-03-23T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-23T17:56:00","slug":"pot-meet-kettle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2003\/03\/23\/13\/56\/pot-meet-kettle\/","title":{"rendered":"Pot, Meet Kettle"},"content":{"rendered":"

So read with that some poor US troops took a wrong turn and were ambushed and some captured and displayed on Iraqi TV. Apparently Bagman Rumsfeld<\/a> thinks this is deplorable<\/a>:
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US defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who admitted that the missing soldiers could have been captured, told CBS television that parading PoWs on television was “a violation of the Geneva Convention.” The US defence department added: “What they are doing is wrong. We are trying to get to the bottom of it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nThis is the same weasel who’s denying<\/a> the thousands of captured Afghanis stewing in Halliburton-constructed cages in Guantanamo Bay, Cube any rights under the Geneva Conventions. He claims they are “unlawful combatants<\/a>” and so he can piss all over them and exhibit them in shackles for the media. HRW<\/a> and Amnesty<\/a> have already said that his position is indefensible.<\/p>\n

It seems that the Bush Gang is quick to dismiss international law and multilateralism when it doesn’t serve their interests (apparently, it’s then “irrelevant”) but ready to cry “Foul!” when others use the same tactics.<\/p>\n

I am still waiting to see<\/a> if the invading US forces use chemical agents<\/a> first, as Rumsfeld has threatened<\/a>, a course of action the Red Cross took the trouble to remind the US is “illegal” under the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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