In an Associated Press interview Monday, former Powell chief of staff 
Lawrence Wilkerson also said that wrongheaded ideas for the handling of 
foreign detainees after Sept. 11 arose from a coterie of White House and 
Pentagon aides who argued that "the president of the United States is all-
powerful," and that the Geneva Conventions were irrelevant. 

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This is a pretty biased article, even for you.

Tell me, what do the Geneva conventions say about combatants,
out of uniform, and having no allegance to a specific country?

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