[Anyone] Geneva Conventions:

[Thos Myers]

There has been a row recently about the Geneva Conventions and the US  
treatment of prisoners.  bush wants to allow for torturing of prisoners:
"Art. 3. In the case of armed conflict not of an international  
character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting  
Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a  
minimum, the following provisions: (1) Persons taking no active part  
in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid  
down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds,  
detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated  
humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour,  
religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar  
criteria. To this end, the following acts are and shall remain  
prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to  
the above-mentioned persons: (a) violence to life and person, in  
particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and  
torture; (b) taking of hostages; (c) outrages upon personal dignity,  
in particular humiliating and degrading treatment; (d) the passing of  
sentences and the carrying out of executions without previous  
judgement pronounced by a regularly constituted court, affording all  
the judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by  
civilized peoples. (2) The wounded and sick shall be collected and  
cared for. An impartial humanitarian body, such as the International  
Committee of the Red Cross, may offer its services to the Parties to  
the conflict."

http://www.genevaconventions.org/

Squirm, bush, squirm because you could go to prison for war crimes.
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