NOT 'bull'!
They are simply THINKING OF THE FUTURE.
What this would mean down the road:
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More than two dozen retired military officers and former defense officials weighed in Wednesday in a letter to Warner, urging Congress not to attempt to redefine violations of Common Article 3.
''If degradation, humiliation, physical and mental brutalization of prisoners is decriminalized or considered permissible under a restrictive interpretation of Common Article 3, we will forfeit all credible objections should such barbaric practices be inflicted upon American prisoners,'' they wrote.
McCain echoed their concerns. If the United States redefines abuses under the treaty, ''then every nation in the world will amend Common Article 3 to their satisfaction,'' McCain said. ''Then the next time a special forces soldier is captured out of uniform, then that government will have their own interpretation.''
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That is why so many of our military testified to this before Congress, why military lawyers are nearly all opposed to the administration's extremely dangerous Orwellian game with 'reinterpreting' treaties.
If *we* 'reinterpret' the treaty any way that pleases us, define prohibited torture to 'not be torture' anymore --- THEN SO CAN, AND LIKELY WILL, EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD... EVERY FUTURE ENEMY WHO CAPTURES AMERICAN COMBATTANTS IN FUTURE CONFLICTS, ETC. |
