Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Mr. Rumsfeld's Defense
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/08/opinion/08SAT1.html?ex=1084593600&en=af7654305f9780e2&ei=5...

The hearings also gave Americans a chilling new reminder of the mess the Bush administration, particularly Mr. Rumsfeld, has made of the Iraq occupation. With their perfect sense of certainty that they were right and everyone else wrong, Mr. Rumsfeld and his colleagues never planned adequately for the occupation. They were unprepared to handle the 43,000-plus Iraqi prisoners they ultimately took or the armed insurgents they faced — even though disorder and resistance were widely predicted...

When he insisted that the normal rules for handling prisoners were in effect, several senators reminded him that he had said in January 2002 that suspected terrorists were not covered by the Geneva Convention.

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edit: Geneva does not apply, the UN is irrelevant, the international community and long standing allies be damned. We are Changing the World!

Bush/Cheney '04
Compassionate Imperialism!