Ray McGovern: My Take
Dear President Bush,
Ray McGovern
Dear President
Bush,
With this note I hope to make sure you know that I have been
invited by the Dallas Peace Center to lecture next Thursday evening, July 9, at
a dinner at FunAsia in Richardson. You and Mrs. Bush are cordially
invited.
In my remarks I plan to focus on the subject of torture. I
shall draw on my thirty years in Army Intelligence and the CIA, as well as a
lifetime of trying to follow Jesus of Nazareth. I will take issue with your
decision of February 7, 2002 that the Geneva Convention Relative to the
Treatment of Prisoners of War (August 12, 1949) does not apply to al Qaeda and
Taliban detainees; and I will explore the implications of that
decision.
Somehow it seemed not quite proper to come to Dallas without
letting you know this in advance. I also wanted to tell you that I would
welcome a chance to discuss these issues with you—either privately or, better
still, at the dinner itself.
