[politics] From the "Even a broken clock is right twice a day" department

Andrew Sullivan:

But this is the Bush administration. King George doesn't have to obey the law; and his military can do anything they want.

Kidnapping, hostages, collective punishment of civilians for supporting insurgents: these are all war crimes. This is not some "he-said/she-said" dispute over how white phosphorus was deployed in Fallujah - this is the US military openly admitting to committing war crimes. (Yeah, I know... if you're a regular reader of this blog, you probably read Atrios, which is where the Sullivan link came from.)