Cheney Ridicules Geneva Convention and the Constitution

May 27 (LPAC)--In another indication of why Dick Cheney's continuation as Vice-President is incompatible with the integrity of the United States republic, the Vice-President ridiculed the provisions of the Geneva Convention and the U.S. Constitution. He also told the graduating class at West Point on May 26, "the terrorists," who allegedly are dedicated to a new caliphate from Spain to Indonesia, want the capital of the caliphate to be in Baghdad. He explained why we are in Iraq: "because that is where [the terrorists] have gathered."

In keeping with his disdain for the Geneva Convention and the Constitution under his "unitary executive" theory, derived directly from Hitler's jurist Carl Schmitt (see), Cheney told the graduates of our foremost military academy: "Capture one of these killers, and he'll be quick to demand the protections of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution of the United States. Yet when they wage attacks or take captives, their delicate sensibilities seem to fall away."

Raw Story , reporting on a February issue of the New Yorker , noted that US Army Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, dean of West Point, told author Jane Mayer that he had more and more difficulty convincing the cadets in his classes that torture of terrorists was wrong, as well as illegal. Cheney's jaunt up the Hudson won't help on that front.