KELVIN SMITH LIBRARY

Condoleezza Rice is Such an Idiot!

During confirmation hearings before the Senate the current nominee for Secretary of State actually said she doesn't believe that members of terrorist groups like al Qaeda deserve the protections of the Geneva Conventions on the Treatment of Prisoners. I don't think I've ever heard a more foolish public comment by anybody at any level of government in my 43+ years on this rock.

Dr. Rice, you must get it into that mass of pudding between your ears that adherence to the Geneva Conventions have nothing at all to do with whether the prisoner in question 'deserves' any sort of treatment. They have nothing to do with what sort of person the prisoner may or may not be, at all. They have absolutely everything to do with what they say about us, and how we expect our sons and daughters to be treated.

To exempt any group from these basic protections exposes all of us to the very treatment they are designed to prevent. The fact that an enemy faction subscribes to methods of terror and torture is not adequate justification to suspend this protection for those persons in our custody, regardles of their affiliation or intents.