WTF Is It Now?!?

International Law a la Carte
Bush Shreds Treaties, Then Whines When Iraq Follows His Example
Nat Parry writes: "As U.S. forces encounter stiffer-than-expected resistance in Iraq, the Bush administration and the U.S. news media are gaining a sudden reverence for international law. [When] five American soldiers were captured and their images were broadcast Sunday on Iraqi TV, Bush administration officials immediately denounced the brief televised interviews with the prisoners as a violation of the Geneva Conventions. [But on Sunday] Iraqi POWs were paraded before U.S. cameras as 'proof' that Iraqi resistance was crumbling. Some of the scenes showed Iraqi POWs forced at gunpoint to kneel down with their hands behind their heads as they were patted down by U.S. soldiers. Yet neither the Bush administration nor a single U.S. reporter covering the war for the major news networks observed how those scenes might be a violation of international law." And not a single Pentagon stenographer has asked about the illegal treatment of POWs in Afghanistan or Guantanamo. - from here and democrats.com.