All Hail, Janus
Nov 10th, 2004 at 5:08 pm by Susan
Hmm. First we have this:
In a January 2002 memo, Gonzales advised Bush to declare the war in Afghanistan, and the detention of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, not subject to the Geneva Conventions, which are treaties that set standards for international law in wartime. That step would protect U.S. officials from being charged with war crimes, Gonzales wrote.“We face an enemy that lies in the shadows, an enemy that doesn’t sign treaties, they don’t wear uniforms, an enemy that owes no allegiance to any country,” Gonzales said in a June press conference.
And then we have this:
President Bush yesterday issued a clear and direct warning that other countries in addition to Afghanistan who harbour terrorists will face America’s wrath, in his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.The speech was Bush’s strongest pitch yet for global leadership in a campaign to root out not just al-Qaeda but all terrorism throughout the world - and the nations, some of them represented in the hall, which sponsor it.
So they’re “terror states” if they have oil and we want to invade them, but they’re stateless when we want to refuse them the rights of the Geneva Convention.
Lovely.
