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To: Suma who wrote (12293)	5/8/2004 12:01:07 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 173976

and the Geneva Convention doesn't apply to rummy "Rumsfeld has shrugged off the Geneva conventions" He can't say he didn't know. He condoned this, urged it. He's been found out and his apologies are meaningless. He will continue to torture prisoners if not impeached. : villagevoice.com It was only after the story broke that the soldiers involved got administrative reprimands, and General Janis Karpinski, the former commander of Abu Ghraib and other prisons, was back in the States in private business. Nobody was in the brig. There were no courts martial in the works. In fact, Senator Carl Levin of Michigan said that only hours before the story broke, Rumsfeld did not mention what was going on in a private briefing before the committee. Since the story had been made public, Myers said, he felt comfortable asking CBS to spare the country the horror by not making public the photos. Myers said he "felt pictures would have a bad result on our troops, perhaps resulting in death." Was the torture systemic? Levin pointed out that White House counsel Alberto Gonzalez did not want to conform to the Geneva conventions so as to gain added "flexibility." Rumsfeld, however, told the senators at Friday's hearing that prison personnel were told to operate within the Geneva conventions. In the past, however, when questioned about their applicability to the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Rumsfeld has shrugged off the Geneva conventions.