Tuesday, 25. March 2003
Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 9:14:57 PM CET
One rule for them - Five PoWs are mistreated in Iraq and the US cries foul.
What about Guantanamo Bay?
Suddenly, the government of the United States has discovered the virtues of international law. It may be waging an illegal war against a sovereign state; it may be seeking to destroy every treaty which impedes its attempts to run the world, but when five of its captured soldiers were paraded in front of the Iraqi television cameras on Sunday, Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, immediately complained that "it is against the Geneva convention to show photographs of prisoners of war in a manner that is humiliating for them".
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