RE: virus: The Rumsfeld wriggle.

From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Mon May 17 2004 - 16:18:40 MDT

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    [Blunderov]The buck stops where?
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    http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEL20040517033311&Title=B%20R%2014113609`
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    By January 25, 2002, according to a memo obtained by 'Newsweek,' it was
    clear that President Bush had already decided that the Geneva Conventions
    did not apply at all, either to the Taliban or al-Qaeda.

    In the memo written to Bush, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales laid out
    the argument that the Geneva Conventions were obsolete in the new paradigm.

    "As you have said, the war against terrorism is a new kind of war," Gonzales
    wrote to Bush and concluded in stark terms: "In my judgment, this new
    paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of
    enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions."
    </Excerpt>
     

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