Comments on: Lord Bingham’s Iraq Flaw http://www.anorak.co.uk/195179/twitterings/lord-binghams-iraq-flaw.html Tabloid news for broadsheet readers Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:16:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: chenier http://www.anorak.co.uk/195179/twitterings/lord-binghams-iraq-flaw.html/comment-page-1#comment-398972 chenier Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:08:36 +0000 http://www.anorak.co.uk/?p=195179#comment-398972 Indeed; about the only thing which can be said in favour of Britains' actions is that it was not nearly as bad as the US, thus. "the unilteral decisions of the US Government that the Geneva Convention did not apply to the detention conditions in Guantanamo Bay, Cubna; or to trial of al-Qaida or Taliban prisoners by military commissions, or that al-Qaida suspects should be denied the rights of both prisoners of war and crimiman spects and that torture should be redefined, contrary to the Torture Convention." Indeed; about the only thing which can be said in favour of Britains’ actions is that it was not nearly as bad as the US, thus.

“the unilteral decisions of the US Government that the Geneva Convention did not apply to the detention conditions in Guantanamo Bay, Cubna; or to trial of al-Qaida or Taliban prisoners by military commissions, or that al-Qaida suspects should be denied the rights of both prisoners of war and crimiman spects and that torture should be redefined, contrary to the Torture Convention.”

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