Item: Spc. Jeremy C. Sivits expected a light sentence, says the Associated Press story in today’s Albuquerque Tribune, but prosecutors asked for the harshest penalty "…saying Sivits knew abuse was banned by the Geneva Conventions."
Item #2: "…as a means of preempting 9/11, Bush, along with Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft, signed off on a secret system of detention and interrogation that opened the door to such methods," reports the current Newsweek.
"It was an approach that they adopted to sidestep the historical safeguards of the Geneva Conventions…"
"In doing so, they overrode the objections of Secretary of State Colin Powell and America’s top military lawyers…."
So? So the grunt at the bottom of the chain of command gets the book thrown at him for violating the very Geneva Conventions that the guys at the very top of the chain deliberately schemed to evade.
Ah, justice.