What's Good For The Goose Is Only Good For The Goose (ACLU vs Bushshites)

[LiviaOlivia]

What's Good For The Goose Is Only Good For The Goose
06-03-2005
digby

It is interesting that the ACLU got a ruling requiring that all the Abu Ghraib pictures be released to the public. What is really interesting is that the government argued that releasing them would be contrary to the Geneva Conventions.
(Via Talk Left)http://talkleft.com/new_archives/010965.html#more

"It is indeed ironic that the government invoked the Geneva Conventions as a basis for withholding these photographs," said Amrit Singh, a staff attorney at the ACLU. "Had the government genuinely adhered to its obligations under these Conventions, it could have prevented the widespread abuse of detainees held in its custody in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay."
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=18393&c=206


It's nearly impossible to be as obtuse as is the Bush administration without having either some sort of cognitive problem or psychological impairment. I suspect it's the latter.

This recent phony outrage about Amnesty International is another example of this pathology. They had no problem using Amnesty to buttress their case against Saddam, but balk at being called to task for our own very obvious and well known human rights abuses in Guantanamo. Of course, there is little mention of this (except by Jon Stewart) so it doesn't matter. Patriotic correctness requires that any criticism of the United States be immediately struck down as treasonous, if not blasphemous.

~snip~

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[Jack Rabbit]

1. I guess the Geneva Conventions aren't so quaint after all

Of course, I would never have said they were. And I don't think the Rome Statute for the International Criminial Court is, either.

[damntexdem]

2. With God on their side, ...

they're not restrained by logic, and certainly not by truth.

[LiviaOlivia]

3. Digby is a god

kick