Bush: Al Qaeda's best recruiter
Meanwhile, back in the States, the Bush Junta is (as usual) busy
strengthening Al Qaeda by insisting on the confirmation of Alberto
Gonzales as Attorney General. Gonzales has the dubious honour of
being the source of the Bush Junta's interrogation policies that led
to prisoner abuse in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay. Gonzales solicited,
received and endorsed an irregular memo from the Justice Department
in August 2002 which advised that the US President had unfettered
power to do whatever he wanted with regard to interrogating "unlawful
combatants." Previously he had described the Geneva Convention as
"quaint" and "obsolete," This is Bush's choice, a man whose
conclusion as White House counsel was that the Geneva Convention did
not apply to suspected terrorists.
Now, if the Abu Ghraib torture scandal was a recruiting tool for
extreme Islamic groups what kind of message does promoting the
architect of the policy which allowed it to happen send? Perhaps the
same as invading an Arab country on the basis of lies, killing
100,000 people, levelling a town of 300,000 and talking about
creating death squads?
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