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To: SOROS who started this subject	5/17/2004 8:37:57 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) of 89467

NOW WE KNOW WHY BUSH PULLED US OUT OF INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES COURT. BECAUSE HE KNEW HIS CRIMINAL ACTIONS WOULD DRAG HIM IN IT!!!!! Guantanamo-Abu Ghraib link? The administration also denied Newsweek’s report that a memo by White House counsel Alberto Gonzales contributed to Rumsfeld’s decision. The memo, which Newsweek said was issued over Powell’s strong objections in January 2002, urged President Bush to stick with his pronouncement that members of al-Qaida and the Taliban government who were taken captive in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were not entitled to the protection of the Geneva Conventions, the series of international treaties regulating the treatment of prisoners of war, Newsweek reported in its May 24 issue. It said the exemption for those prisoners, most of whom have been held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, “substantially reduces the threat of domestic criminal prosecution under the War Crimes Act.” (Newsweek posted the memo in PDF format Monday on its Web site.) White House memo link: msnbc.msn.com Gonzales told NBC News on Monday night that there was no evidence linking his determination on al-Qaida detainees to the abuse in Iraq, where, he said, the Geneva Conventions protections are supposed to apply. White House press secretary Scott McClellan concurred, telling reporters that the memo “related specifically to al-Qaida and the Taliban. It did not reference Iraq at all. We have made it clear that we are bound by the Geneva Conventions in Iraq.” But defense sources said Monday that the memo was used to provide the legal justification for the Defense Department to adopt its new approach in interrogations of prisoners in Iraq. msnbc.msn.com

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