Monday, September 13, 2004
Abu Ghraib torture: So if Bush "doesn't like it one bit," why'd he sign off on it?
A question that answers itself... (Here, for the "didn't like it one bit" quote. Of course, maybe Bush meant that he didn't like getting caught one bit; the torture part was OK:
Gee, I wonder what font that document is in?
NOTE Thanks to alert reader riggsveda.
Hersh provides details of how President George Bush signed off on the establishment of a secret unit that was given advance approval to kill or capture and interrogate "high-value" suspects - considered by many to be in defiance of international law - an officially "unacknowledged" programme that was eventually transferred wholesale from Guantánamo to the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
Hersh reports that a secret document signed by Mr Bush in February 2002 stated: "I determine that none of the provisions of Geneva apply to our conflict with al-Qaida in Afghanistan or elsewhere throughout the world."
(via Guardian)
Gee, I wonder what font that document is in?
NOTE Thanks to alert reader riggsveda.