So-Called Prisoner Abuse

The U.S. authoritative role in the world means American servicemen should not be bound by irrelevant treaties such as the Geneva Convention. PNAM resents that the Bush administration chose to apologize to the world about Abu Ghraib:

“Sorry for the humiliation suffered by the Iraqi detainees … and their families.”

The U.S. owes no apologies for anything our brave military does in pursuit of American strength and independence.

Apologies notwithstanding, Bush has made an excellent recent appointment in Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General. Mr. Gonzales was brilliant in his legal treatment of evading federal criminal law and international treaties banning torture. In his Aug. 1, 2002 memo to the president, Gonzales successfully made the case that prisoners at Guantanamo may be threatened with death, and subject to physical pain:

"In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions."

Further, he maintains that the President cannot be bound by laws forbidding torture.

The Gonzales appointment steps in a productive direction, not for the excuse of fighting terrorism, but rather for establishing the framework for assuring American dominance around the globe. By creatively adapting our Bill of Rights, Gonzales stands to make his mark in history as the man who consolidates our three branches of government under the White House in order to bring efficiency in carrying out God’s will.