Tony Snow conducted one of his most fascinating briefings today in his relatively short time as White House press secretary.
Most of it had to do with the administration's attempt to redefine -- or as it claims, simply make clearer -- certain key parts of the Geneva Convention's rules on torture and interrogation. In the course of it, Snow charged that former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had just written a letter critical of this move, was "confused" about the matter, and several key GOP senators, including John McCain, similarly not on the right path.
That's right, everyone's all freaked out about torture and the Geneva Convention because the whole thing's so confusing. As E&P points out, "Geneva prohibitions have lasted almost 60 years without others feeling a crying need to clarify or re-define them." Apparently, everyone took stupid pills once we started this whole war on terror thing and now no one can understand something that's been considered unambiguous since it was last revised in 1949.
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