THE ABU GHRAIB BAIT AND SWITCH

From JunkYard Blog

The latest round of the Abu Ghraib abuse-a-thon has to do with the Justice Department memos written up presumably for the Attorney General and President's consideration in the wake of 9-11. Gleeful Democrat Senators have adopted a slashing tecnique of demanding the Attorney General's testimony before their committees, then mocking each of his answers to all of their questions. They are also, in the process, pulling a bait and switch. They are holding up Justice memos that suggest, correctly, that al Qaeda terrorists are not subject to treatment under the Geneva Conventions because in their techniques, their tactics and their mode of dress have taken themselves outside Geneva's strictures and therefore its protections. Those memos are then being used to suggest that they created policy that became the abuse in Abu Ghraib.

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Abu Ghraib, awful as it is, does not put us on the same moral plane as the terrorists any more than Japanese internment put us on the same moral plane as the Nazis. Terrorists killed 3,000 in a single morning, those killed just going about their workaday lives or flying off to Disneyland or going to visit kin. To fall to that moral level, we would have to do far worse than what was done in Abu Ghraib.

As he says Abu Ghraib is about abuse not torture.
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