“The United States doesn’t even pretend to respect the Geneva Conventions these days. Obviously, shooting unarmed demonstrators in the back as they flee is a war crime. But then neocons don’t do international law.

As Bush has repeatedly made clear, he believes international treaties are for wimps, appeasers, and the irrelevant. International law is for pantywaists such as the French, not intractable and self-righteous Americans engaged in a forever war against ‘terr’ism,’ otherwise known as the Islamic religion.” `–Kurt Nimmo, Counterpunch