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Bush Iraq commander says US violated Geneva Conventions

by TheCameraObscura | May 29, 2009 at 03:02 pm

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For years, progressives, liberals and Democrats have been called "traitors," "unpatriotic" and "terrorist sympathizers" for stating that the U.S. violated the Geneva Conventions.

The latest voice to join them is General David Petraeus, the former commander of US forces in Iraq, under President George W. Bush.

Will General Petraeus be thrown under the bus by the same "respectable" folks (such as Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney) who tossed General Colin Powell under last week?

The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, said Friday that the US had violated the Geneva Conventions in a stunning admission from President Bush’s onetime top general in Iraq that the US may have violated international law.

“When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Conventions we rightly have been criticized, so as we move forward I think it’s important to again live our values, to live the agreements that we have made in the international justice arena and to practice those,” Gen. Petraeus said on Fox News Friday afternoon.

Petraeus made the comment in the context of being asked about the Bush administration’s so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.” The now-Central Command chief said he believed that banning the more extreme techniques had taken away “a tool” employed by “our enemies” as a moral argument against the United States.

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djermano

at 04:08 on May 30th, 2009

How does that saying go? Forthright is better than hindsight? I forget...but really they should have known this before heading into war. Right? Well thanks General...for not doing your duty so you can do your duty? Now how about some questions we have about 911?

Given all of the numerous unanswered questions...to the events of 911...and the fact that Saddam had nothing to do with 911...how is it...you guys came to the conclusion you should wage war without the real facts? Sounds incrediable that you killed over a million innocent people on groundless basis. Don't you think that is Court Martial Material ? And just when are you going to face the truth you run an out of control Military Industrial Complex?

I am looking forward to American Justice System really working by indicting you guys and giving you more time than 1 year for each of the individuals in the over one million innocent lives you took.

Adjouned.

Rev. Jermano