Sunday, May 31, 2009

US violated Geneva Conventions, Bush Iraq commander says [Petraeus]

Raw Story � US violated Geneva Conventions, Bush Iraq commander says | By John Byrne | Published: May 29, 2009 | Updated 2 days ago

The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, said Friday that the US had violated the Geneva Conventions in a stunning admission from President Bush’s onetime top general in Iraq that the US may have violated international law.

“When we have taken steps that have violated the Geneva Conventions we rightly have been criticized, so as we move forward I think it’s important to again live our values, to live the agreements that we have made in the international justice arena and to practice those,” Gen. Petraeus said on Fox News Friday afternoon. ....

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