  WHEN "SORRY" ISN'T ENOUGH. WaPo editorial board is calling Rumsfeld's accepting of full and complete responsibility for the abuses in Iraq urlLink An Inadequate Response .
But whether or not he remains in office, the most important task before the administration and Congress should be to reform the system of prisoner detention so that it fully conforms to the Geneva Conventions and other international standards of human rights. That will require changes in procedures, the formulation of clear standards and rigorous outside oversight. This wrongly assumes that the GC is more protective of prisoner rights than regular US procedures.
If the problem is enforcement, then it wouldn't matter WHAT convention/body of law you follow as it won't be enforced. That being said, assuming the problem IS enforcement, the very fact that the this problem was "outed" by a fellow serviceman, that the DOD responded almost immediately with investigating the charges and a fairly giant-sized report on the matter kind of gives the lie to the notion that these abuses are either a policy of the DOD or an unavoidable consequence of DOD policy.
What does this all mean? Well, that's it's 2am and I should be outlining Corporations right about now. 
