Pardon the typo. I meant April 4, 2001, not 2004. My fingers got hit with the typovirus.
Bush has never said that the Geneva convention does not apply to US Troops or the US Government as a whole. The only case in which the administration has made the case that the US does not have to follow the Geneva convention is in the case of non-uniformed personell on the battlefield, who are technically illegal combatants. The Geneva convention applies to uniformed soldiers on the battlefield, not terrorists.