Bush's Hypocrisy on War Crimes = "If there is somebody captured ...,"

[L. Coyote]

Bush's Hypocrisy on War Crimes
By Jason Leopold - April 16, 2009 - http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/041609a.html


In March 2003, after Iraqi troops captured several U.S. soldiers and let them be interviewed on Iraqi TV, senior Bush administration officials expressed outrage over this violation of the Geneva Convention.

"If there is somebody captured," President George W. Bush told reporters on March 23, 2003, "I expect those people to be treated humanely. If not, the people who mistreat the prisoners will be treated as war criminals."

No one in the Bush administration, however, acknowledged the extent of their own violations of rules governing humane treatment of enemy combatants. Nor did the U.S. news media offer any context, ignoring the U.S. handling of Afghan War captives at Guantanamo Bay in 2002 and the fact that the U.S. military also had paraded captured Iraqi soldiers before cameras.

During those heady days of “embedded” war correspondents reporting excitedly about Bush’s “shock and awe” invasion, what Americans got to see and hear was how the Iraqi violation of the Geneva Convention – the videotaped interviews – demonstrated the barbarity of the enemy and justified their punishment as war criminals.

Bush’s fury over the POW interviews echoed across Washington. “It is a blatant violation of the Geneva Convention to humiliate and abuse prisoners of war or to harm them in any way,” .............

[indepat]

1. 'puke hypocrisy is possibly exceeded by only sanctimoniousness, reichousness, and disingenuousness,

but hypocrisy might be the greatest of these. :P

[louis-t]

2. Did you mean 'righteousness'?

[indepat]

3. No, reichousness which is my own holistic take of everything associated with 'pukedom, as in fourth

reich. :D

[louis-t]

4. Ahh.

[Supersedeas]

5. at one point, they were talking about photos of captured US troops

wasn't it soon thereafter that they disseminated the duct-taped naked body of John Walker Lindh?

[Supersedeas]

6. if only the Yellow Media were really paying attention.