FOX: "Patraeus: We Violated Geneva Conventions"

[240 is Back]

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.

Petraeus didn’t say which parts of the Geneva Conventions he thought he and other administration officials had violated.

Fox News.com

[Eyeball Chambers]

Well I'll be damned

[IFBBwannaB]

Militates break treaties on a daily basis, it's their job...killing pepole, exploding shit, invading countries...that's the whole reason you got a military to deal with the shit that the paper work isn't able to do.

If the world would work by treaties than we wouldn't need militates or police forces.

Anyway....so this general is running for office anytime soon ? Is he trying to get some political credit?

[24KT]

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.

Petraeus didn’t say which parts of the Geneva Conventions he thought he and other administration officials had violated.

Fox News.com

I am sooo hoping Bush & Cheney will see a little "justice". I doubt it tho... Cheney's ticker only has a few beats left, and Bush has got himself a little pice of land in a country that doesn't extradite for crimes committed while in political office. Sounds like a job for Dog The Bounty Hunter, ...or even better, in an ironic twist, ...some of those spooks they used to have kidnapping people off the streets and 'rendering' them to be tortured, could be used to bring them to justice.

[IFBBwannaB]

I am sooo hoping Bush & Cheney will see a little "justice". I doubt it tho... Cheney's ticker only has a few beats left, and Bush has got himself a little pice of land in a country that doesn't extradite for crimes committed while in political office. Sounds like a job for Dog The Bounty Hunter, ...or even better, in an ironic twist, ...some of those spooks they used to have kidnapping people off the streets and 'rendering' them to be tortured, could be used to bring them to justice.

Go black panthers go...come on...strap yourself with a bomb and blow some white people off 

[MB_722]

they won't.

it's a joke.