Bush ordered torture, using their code-phrase "military necessity"

[Eric J in MN]

The Bush Administration uses the phrase "military necessity" to break laws while claiming legality.

When Bush wrote on Feb. 7, 2002 that the military must follow the Geneva Convention "to the extent appropriate and consistent with military necessity," he's using code.

The meaning of Bush's words:
break the Geneva Convention, and use the phrase "military necessity" to claim it was legal.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/22/prisoner.memos/index.html

[Eric J in MN]

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[Eric J in MN]

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[BurtWorm]

3. I don't know why this seems to be going over DUers heads.

Bush is THE war criminal they've been trying to protect since day 1!

[opihimoimoi]

4. Those guys just luv to use fancy words to escape the guilt

its sickening

Now look, our troops are in danger of being beheaded.,

[Solly Mack]

5. Yes, Bush is guilty

Geneva trumps "military necessity" (talk about a quaint term) and the law of land warfare is guided by that fact.

[Rose Siding]

6. They have even convoluted the definition of "torture"

saying it must be injury bad enough to affect organ failure or to cause death and there is a very twisty definition of what qualifies as mental torture.

When he says he doesn't endorse "torture", he isn't even talking about the concept we recognize by its commonly accepted definition.