Al qaeda Quote by John Yoo

Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda…

— John Yoo

In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image.…

— Amy Poehler

There are pros and cons about the policy decision whether to follow the Geneva Conventions in a war where they do not legally apply.…

— John Yoo

The United States of course wants to follow the highest standards of conduct with regard to enemy combatants who follow the rules of war.…

— John Yoo

It is important to recognize the differences between the war in Iraq and the war on terrorism. The treatment of those detained at Abu…

— John Yoo

That is because the conflict with al Qaeda is not governed by the Geneva Conventions, which applies only to international conflicts between states that…

— John Yoo

I haven't decided if he deserved to eat bread made out of sticks or live in a rancid puddle, probably because I haven't made…

— Sarah Vowell

But in Afghanistan, the general rule was that since you were fighting the Taliban, which was not a lawful government force, the Geneva Conventions…

— Yaroslav Trofimov

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

— Peter Maurer

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we…

— Carlos Fuentes

Military police know what to do, they know the Geneva Conventions, and their objective is to provide a safe, secure, fair environment for prisoners…

— Janis Karpinski

Prisoners, according to the law, who are non-U.S. citizens and are detained outside the U.S. - including in Guantanamo Bay - are denied 'habeas…

— Noah Feldman