Torture... It began at the top.... And, now, what the hell do we do...?

below are the introductory paragraphs of a memorandum dated 25 January 2002 from then white house counsel alberto gonzales to president bush... in it he reaffirms the department of justice legal opinion that geneva does not apply to al qaeda and acknowledges bush's decision to waive geneva... he also points out that the secretary of state, colin powell, had requested that the decision be reconsidered and that bush conclude that geneva does apply...

we must never, ever, ever lose sight of the fact that the chain of accountability began at the top...



and now we're dealing with the terrible consequences...

[I]t was a grave mistake for the Bush administration to deny Geneva Convention rights to detainees at Guantanamo and other prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan. That decision four years ago laid the groundwork for all the abuse of detainees, including the 31 deaths that the military has found were confirmed or suspected homicides. Now the administration has compounded the shame by denying access to prisoners by investigators from the UN Human Rights Commission. The decision will only strengthen the view of US critics that this country has placed itself above international law.

it's not a view... we have, plain and simple...

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