When one gives up the Geneva Convention, this will happen. Remember, the guards were not told of the Geneva Convention, were not trained in it, and didn't follow it for a reason.
Because it didn't apply under operative DoD standards, and so they would be free to abuse.
Abuse was encouraged from the top down, starting with Rumsfeld. These were not rogue guards, and this was not isolated to that prison. And all along the DoD knew it.
No wiggle room there.
"The lawlessness began in January 2002" when Mr. Rumsfeld publicly declared that hundreds of people detained by U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan "do not have any rights" under the Geneva Conventions. That was not the case: At a minimum, all those arrested in the war zone were entitled under the conventions to a formal hearing to determine whether they were prisoners of war or unlawful combatants."
Responsibility for abuse goes in a direct line down from, and up to, Rumsfeld.
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- Responsibility for abuse goes in a direct line down from, and up to, Rumsfeld.
- Nothing exposes how shallow your concern is like blaming this outrage on Rumsfeld (n/t)