I KNEW IT!!

Bush hasn't had a good news week this year. I KNEW they'd put out some unsavory releases this week and hope for cover from the ongoing Reagasm. aaaaaaaand, here's one from yesterday!

The State Department warned the White House two years ago that rejecting international standards against torture when dealing with detainees could put U.S. troops at risk.

The memo followed recommendations from the Justice Department advising the president he could suspend international treaties prohibiting torture.

"A decision that the conventions do not apply to the conflict in Afghanistan in which our armed forces are engaged deprives our troops there of any claim to the protection of the convention in the event they are captured,'' State Department legal adviser William H. Taft IV wrote in the 2002 memo to presidential counsel.

Furthermore, refusing Geneva standards to detainees ``weakens protections afforded by the conventions to our troops in future conflicts,'' Taft wrote. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the memo.

The Justice Department also told the White House that U.S. laws against torture do not apply to the fight against terrorism. The department memos say torture "may be justified'' against al-Qaida detainees in U.S. custody abroad and laws and treaties barring torture could be trumped by the president's supreme authority to act as necessary in wartime.

Five days after the State Department memo was written, Bush decided the Geneva Conventions apply to Taliban prisoners but not to captured al-Qaida terrorists.


Remember the State Department? With Colin Powell, they were the 'voice of reason' in this administration.

I've tried to write a last sentence here but i can't. there is so much that is obviously wrong here that you can figure it out for yourself. you don't need me to write out that which one sentence can't even hold.