Too bad this document crap spun out of control today...

[SalParadise]

The real story should be this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1301713,00.html

Two US army generals who oversaw an internal investigation into detention facilities in Iraq originally found eight cases of prisoners being kept off official lists to hide them from the Red Cross. However, they yesterday said the true figure could be much higher.

"The number is in the dozens, to perhaps up to 100," General Paul Kern told the senate armed services committee. General George Fay put the figure at "two dozen or so", but both officers said they could not give a precise number because no records were kept on most of the CIA detainees.

Under the Geneva conventions, the temporary failure to disclose the identities of prisoners to the Red Cross is permitted under an exemption for military necessity. However, the generals said they were certain the practice used by the CIA in Iraq went far beyond that.

Our country imprisons up to 100 people, then HIDES them from the IRC, violating the Geneva convention treaties and all this country can do is talk about kerning and font types.

What the fuck is wrong with us.

[yardwork]

1. This story was on the front page of my local paper

under the fold, but front page nonetheless. And some of our counties had major hurricane damage, which took up most of the front page above the fold.

The story's out there. Thanks for linking it here!

[LisaLynne]

2. I wish I knew.

[AmerDem]

3. This is a war crime

It goes against the Geneva convention. The thing about it is ,when the Red Cross was reporting the one person for sure they knew about, Rumfeld said he was aware of it but he made an excuse as to why it was legit to do. Now the full story is coming out that perhaps 100 or more were hidden. We now have an adminstration and military directly involved in war crimes.

What the fuck have they done to our country?:grr: