Politics

Jimmy Carter attacks the president for helping to fuel anti-American feeling in the Islamic world, among many other failings.

The Bush administration has said it is following the Geneva Conventions in Iraq, but a memo prepared by the Justice Department in March authorizes the CIA “to transfer prisoners out of Iraq for interrogation ? a practice that international legal specialists say violates the Geneva Conventions.”

For months the Bush administration has insisted it has given Halliburton, Vice President Cheney’s former company, “no special treatment.” Now, the top civilian contracting official for the Army Corps of Engineers, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, says “the Army granted the Halliburton Company large contracts for work in Iraq and the Balkans without following rules designed to ensure competition and fair prices to the government.”

A whole munitions dump of high explosives was left unguarded during the occupation of Iraq, it was looted, and now the administration is doing everything except taking responsibility.