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. --------------------- 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? * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *