THE WORLD WATCHES AS U.S. AVOIDS THE SHAMEFUL GLARE By Georgie Anne Geyer
Fri Jun 17, 5:42 PM ET
WASHINGTON -- Last week I was in my hometown, Chicago, where I spoke with some of the famously political Daleys about the first mayor of the family, Mayor Richard J. Daley. One of the more colorful politicians of Chicago's Technicolor civic culture, he was given to voicing memorable words.
One of the family recalled the elder Mayor Daley's consistent opposition to the Vietnam War, a stance that was unusual in his time and certainly among his working-class constituents. The no-nonsense mayor told President Lyndon B. Johnson in no uncertain terms to get out: "When you're dealt a bad hand," Daley was quoted as saying, "get out of the game."
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The United States has brought charges against only four of the 520 prisoners still held in Guantanamo. I, at least, am not clear on how many of the Gitmo prisoners have genuine cases against them, but we do know that from 80 percent to 90 percent of the Abu Ghraib prisoners are now declared to have been innocent men. We also know that this administration's obsession with the war on terror has led them to turn their backs on many of our most precious values: the rights of even prisoners under the law, the traditional American ban against torture, and our adherence to the Geneva Accords, which were originally hammered out to protect our own soldiers and to gradually introduce and enforce civilized norms of warfare to the rest of the world.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucgg/20050617/cm_ucgg/theworldwatchesasusavoidstheshamefulglare/nc:742Seems like we have some explaining to do to the world.