Torture Apologist Nominated as Attorney General?

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President Four More Years, George W. himself, thinks the best pick for the nation's top law-enforcement official should be a lawyer who advocated throwing away the Geneva Convention. The U.S. Attorney General nominee, Alberto Gonzales, working as a senior White House lawyer said in January of 2002 that the war against terrorism:

in my judgment renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners.

The man who would enforce U.S. laws thinks that the most important international law in human history should be chucked. In arguing that the law against torture of enemy soldiers was now irrelevant, Gonzales helped set the stage for the Abu Ghraib prison atrocities. Instead of being tried in international criminal courts as a war criminal, Gonzales is being promoted to a senior United States cabinet position. When liberty for all fails, destroy their cities: watch Falluja burn. When justice for all fails, torture the bastards: away with the Geneva Convention.

What? Forgotten what torture looks like? The folks at antiwar.com have a collection of Abu Ghraib images

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