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librarycard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-03-04 04:50 AM
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Wasn't it Wolfowitz who's admitted that the war broke international laws?
I seem to recall his saying as much several months ago. Does anyone happen to have a link to that?
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Lucky Luciano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-03-04 04:53 AM
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1. No, it was Perle who said this,
but then I heard a Perle interview where he either downplayed this or discredited it outright.
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-03-04 05:07 AM
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2. I've got a quote . . .
Edited on Sun Oct-03-04 05:09 AM by TaleWgnDg
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Q: Senator Jack Reed (Dem, RI): "If you were shown
a video of a United States Marine or an American
citizen in control of a foreign power, in a cell block,
naked with a bag over their head, squatting with their
arms uplifted for 45 minutes, would you describe that
as a good interrogation technique or a violation of
the Geneva Convention?"

A: Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the vice chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff: "I would describe it as a violation."

A: Paul D. Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of defense: "What
you've described to me sounds to me like a violation of the
Geneva Convention."

Thursday, May 13, 2004, Senate Armed Services Committee hearings
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25737-2004May13.htm
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edited to add (I hit the wrong button): I don't recall seeing or hearing that Wolfowitz made a blanket admission as to the Iraqi War, itself . . . I could be wrong, however.
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librarycard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-03-04 05:11 AM
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3. LL and TWD, do either of you happen to know a link inre: Chalabi
I read recently, I thought from Time Magazine, how Chalabi had gone to the CIA drunk and told them that Saddam had WMD. The CIA told the President's men that Chalabi's information should be discounted, but they were told that Bush wanted the war, so it didn't matter.

Is my retelling of that scenario accurate?
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-03-04 05:12 AM
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4. sorry, I don't know . . . n/t
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supercrash Donating Member (412 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-03-04 08:35 AM
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5. LOL....
We violate all the Geneva Conventions, we violate other international laws, we kidnapped Chavez, and Aristide ....elected leaders of a democracy...

Who will hold the Americans responsible ? ...who will be the ones that punish the USA

I can tell you who the ONLY people on the planet that will...and have punished the USA for it's criminal foreign policy....that group of people is called Al'Qaeda

It's downright sickening that wer have to depend on Al'Qaeda to punish the USA for it's criminal acts

The rest of the world just stands by and takes it
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