Petraeus with Obama on Gitmo

From the Huffington Post:

"With respect to Guantanamo," Petraeus added, "I think that the closure in a responsible manner, obviously one that is certainly being worked out now by the Department of Justice -- I talked to the Attorney General the other day [and] they have a very intensive effort ongoing to determine, indeed, what to do with the detainees who are left, how to deal with them in a legal way, and if continued incarceration is necessary -- again, how to take that forward. But doing that in a responsible manner, I think, sends an important message to the world, as does the commitment of the United States to observe the Geneva Convention when it comes to the treatment of detainees."

Let me reinterate (for the first time) that the premier military authority in this union is calling for the closing of Guantanamo Bay because the place doesn't operate in accordance with the Geneva Conventions. Has anyone else with something to lose actually admitted this fact? Doesn't this make the U.S. guilty of war crimes against other nations? It's a testament to how comfortable we all can get with our homeland committing atrocities, so long as they are far and away.