Pick and Choose the laws we like

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In the continuing battle of moderate Collin Powel vs the extremists, George Jr decides to ignore any international treaty he does not like:

Several international legal scholars were outraged at what they saw as a picking and choosing of which parts of the [Geneva Convention] to apply.

Although the Bush administration came into office expressing deep skepticism about a number of international agreements, arguing that decades-old treaties restricted the pursuit of American interests in a rapidly changing world, few anticipated that President Bush would actually reject the Geneva Conventions.

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