US violated Geneva Conventions, Bush Iraq commander says

[babsbunny]

US violated Geneva Conventions, Bush Iraq commander says

http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/29/petraeus-geneva-conventions/


By John Byrne

Published: May 29, 2009
Updated 2 hours ago


The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, said Friday that the US had violated the Geneva Conventions in a stunning admission from President Bush’s onetime top general in Iraq that the US may have violated international law.

“When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Conventions we rightly have been criticized, so as we move forward I think it’s important to again live our values, to live the agreements that we have made in the international justice arena and to practice those,” Gen. Petraeus said on Fox News Friday afternoon.

[newscott]

1. Amazing how they get to bury this on a Friday afternoon. I'm stunned. Not.

[Solly Mack]

2. "we rightly have been criticized" Should have rightly been imprisoned

for war crimes and crimes against humanity


" we rightly have been criticized, so as we move forward "

snort

[Selatius]

3. It seems the only time they get imprisoned is if the nation they rule is defeated in a war.

Of course, there was no Allied force opposing the US, no D-Day style invasion to liberate the United States from the corporatists, and no V-Day or "Victory in America Day" where the corporate leadership officially surrenders and is then arrested and prosecuted for war crimes.

[ThomWV]

4. Is he not as guilty as anyone? The son of a bitch can not say he did not know.

[librechik]

5. according to Jeremy Scahill, we are still doing it

Let's get it all out on the table, General. Can't move forward without taking the bayonet out of the corpse.