Bush's "dirty war"
By expanding the CIA's secret campaign against Al Qaeda into the ranks of the professional military establishing, the Bush administration has fostered an erosion of respect for international humanitarian law within the US military establishment, including a noxious disregard for the Internation...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Bulletin of the atomic scientists 2004-11, Vol.60 (6), p.78-80 |
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Zusammenfassung: | By expanding the CIA's secret campaign against Al Qaeda into the ranks of the professional military establishing, the Bush administration has fostered an erosion of respect for international humanitarian law within the US military establishment, including a noxious disregard for the International Committee of the Red Cross's repeated efforts to document the abuse of detainees. If Congress should ever be so bold as to probe the remaining patchwork of deception, it will likely find impeachable and potentially prosecutable offenses. |
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ISSN: | 0096-3402 1938-3282 |
DOI: | 10.2968/060006017 |