Bush’s Extraordinary Protection of Extraordinary Rendition

Posted on February 8, 2007
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According to the Washington Post, the U.S., Britain, Spain, and Italy have refused to sign a long-negotiated accord on secret detentions. The U.N. treaty has 58 other signers. It is hardly surprising as failure to cooperate with other nations is a hallmark of the Bush administration. What would be surprising is if this administration did sign such an agreement, given the practice of “extraordinary rendition.”

Andrew Sullivan of The Atlantic Online says:
The United States is defined by its refusal to indulge in such totalitarian, police state practices. Well, it was. But not under this president. The U.S. won’t sign.

It seems clear that the Bush, Rice, Gonzales, and Cheney, cabal will sign no documents that might limit their power overseas or get them in trouble down the road. But why would they also refuse to sign an agreement prohibiting the use of child soldiers?

At a separate gathering, a non-binding accord banning the use of child soldiers was signed here Tuesday by representatives of 58 countries, including African nations that have been harshly criticized by the United Nations and human rights groups for arming children. The United States did not participate, saying that it objected to some of the wording of the documents but that it remained committed to its treaty obligations on the issue.

Would the “cabal” secretly arm children for oil as well?

And why the fuss over creating legal hurdles in the first place, isn’t the thrill of extraordinary rendition the idea of doing something outside or above the law and feeding cabal members’ “master of the universe delusions?” How much more thrilling would it be with another layer of protection for common folks that must be penetrated?