The Pentagon outlined the new standards to the military in a 7 July memo.
The directive says all military detainees are entitled to humane treatment and to certain basic legal standards when they come to trial, as required by Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions.
"It is not really a reversal of policy - humane treatment has always been the standard"
Tony Snow, White House spokesman
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The Bush administration has come under intense and sustained international criticism for its treatment of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
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US Detainees To Get Geneva Rights
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"President Bush has long fought the idea that US detainees were prisoners of war entitled to Geneva Convention rights"
and also state:
"When the detention centre (= Guantanamo Bay) was established in 2002, President Bush ordered that detainees be treated "humanely, and to the extent appropriate and consistent with military necessity, in a manner consistent with the principles of Geneva"."
Or am I missing something inhumanely wrong?
There is humane treatment (which is debatable that they were recieving) in accord with the Conventions, and the *full* protections of the G.C. that include that they will not face criminal procecution and be released after the 'War'. Criminal procecutions and indefinite interrment is excatally what they were facing, before the Supreme court ruled.
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1) living up to treaty agreements
2) inner city education
3) the environment
4) fair business practices
5) civil liberties
6) nuclear disarmament
7) the well being of workers displaced by offshoring their jobs
I could add to the list but I trust I have made my point
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