Andrew Sullivan:

…spare me this nonsense about knowing that torture will follow every war. If I had been informed in early 2003 that the liberation of Iraq would be conducted outside the Geneva Conventions, I could not have supported what would have been an unjust war in its execution. Period. If the president had been candid and explained that this war would require America to jettison its long history of humane detention policies and become a nation that practices and outsources torture, I would have been unable to support the war. (emphasis mine)

Jon Henke:

…no more complaining that our enemies do not abide by the Geneva Convention. If we abandon the rule of law and our treaty obligations when it becomes convenient to do so, we can hardly complain that they’ve done so when it was convenient for them. Indeed, by excusing ourselves, the administration tacitly condones this kind of behaviour from others. (emphasis mine)

Odd, I would’ve thought looking at the rationale from the ideological drivers of the invasion would’ve sent out a warning signal. I mean, interwoven in the arguement was a view that the US is too restrained by “international opinion” when it comes to military strategy, what reason was there to think there’d be a gulf between macro & micro? I don’t recall anyone in the neo camp saying anything about simply setting our own boundaries by moral means — “we don’t need the Geneva Convention because we won’t torture anyway, it’s not right” — which would show they rejected not the concept of limits in and of itself, but the assumed source of them.

As readers of this site know by now, I reject the idea of “international law” myself, so I’m not looking at any of this as “damn, we’re breaking Geneva”, just “damn, we’re torturing people while claiming we’re better than that”. The difference is why I reject it: government is little more than monopolized force, & there can be no such thing as a global monopoly on force. International law does not exist, what we refer to by that name is just interests butting heads behind a flimsy cloak.