The last administration may not have been everyone's favourite but it was always good for a laugh
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The Bush administration argued that releasing these photographs would violate US obligations towards detainees...
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So it was OK to torture them, but we need to follow our obligations toward them. How about our obligations not to torture them?
The United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Ratified 21 Oct 94
Article 2 Paragraph 2
"No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture."
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The Bush administration had also argued that releasing the photographs would violated the Geneva Conventions, which protect prisoners of war and detained civilians “against insults and public curiosity."
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Excuse me, Mr. President. But the Geneva Conventions also protect these people from TORTURE! So Torture is OK, but suddenly we are concerned with protecting them from insults and public curiosity?
Make up your mind Mr. President. Is they or aint they covered by the Geneva Conventions
You can't just pick and choose what to follow based on what is more convenient.
hy·poc·ri·sy: The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
I would seriously be laughing, if it were not so pathetic.
