Saturday, April 09, 2005
Race to the Bottom
As the Christian Right continues it determined efforts to drag the US into medieval depravity and brutality, the Pentagon is trying to keep up with the "Joint Publication 3-63: Joint Doctrine for Detainee Operations". According to Human Rights Watch:
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The guidelines also specify that humane treatment of all detainees can be limited by "military necessity," a position that is both contrary to international and domestic law and opens the door to mistreatment and even torture of detainees.
"Instead of correcting current violations of the Geneva Conventions, these guidelines would shred the conventions further," said Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch. "The policies set out in this document could even require personnel to commit war crimes."
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