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New York Times - Bush Administration Guilty of War Crimes

susanswilk sent a shout to methodshop   49 days ago

If we want to be a part of the global community, including global commerce, we must abide by the agreements made in everyone's beswt interests, such as the Geneva Conventions. No country can completely isolate itself. Soverignty must be relative unless the country chooses to be completely self-sufficient, and the United States does not, CANNOT. Just as citizens must follow the rules of its community to be a part of the community (obey traffic laws, pay taxes, and follow the standards of behavior or fail fines or jail), the United States must also abide by globally accepted standards of behavior such as abiding by the Geneva Conventions.

As rankling as it must be to people who will shout "Sovereinty! " or "But it's a war!" we have agreed that if a citizen were to shoot an intruder in his own home, there is still an investigation, and consequences.

The people in this administration who decided that by labelling people as enemy combatants, they can dispense with universally acknowledged standards of human rights, and authorize torture -- these people must be held to account--not only by our own government, but in front of the world. We cannot allow charges of war crimes to go without examination, without trial, and still expect to be allowed to interact with the rest of the world as we always have in the past.