Wednesday, August 09, 2006

US seeks to shield its war interrogators: report

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It's about damn time this happened, we can not let our people be screwed over for doing their jobs.
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3 comments:

Tom said...

So.. let me see if I have this correct. The United States Supreme Court ruled that the Gitmo prisoners are to be afforded Geneva Convention protections.. and it's a good thing that the Administration re-writes the 1996 War Crimes Act in order to make what was illegal acts, now legal?

Lets be clear - you don't believe these prisoners should have any rights at all, because they are all "guilty terrorists", right? Any and all "interrogation techniques" should be legal for the United States, even harsh torture such as electrocution, even resulting in death? Summary execution?

Instead of being vague, just say it.

After all, these "savages" did not respect any Geneva Conventions to our soldiers, did they?

That is what you believe, correct?

3:04 PM
Gunny John said...

You seem to overlook that one tiny little detail tom: They're not legal combatants. If you read the accords of the Geneva Convention, you'll find that enemy "combatants," need to be clearly marked with a proper uniform. Even local provisional militias are required to wear armbands, or headgear that identifies them.

We've bent over backward to house and feed these thugs (yes thugs, we're not rounding up sheep herders and school teachers), even allowing the Red Cross to set up shop right there alongside them. I'm not hearing any outcry from the Red Cross, only far left activists and Hollywood celebreties.

9:14 PM
Tom said...

I'm not hearing any outcry from the Red Cross, only far left activists and Hollywood celebreties.

And the United States Supreme Court;

"[I]n undertaking to try Hamdan and subject him to criminal punishment, the Executive is bound to comply with the Rule of Law that prevails in this jurisdiction,"

In fact, I find your viewpoint repugnant. The United States does NOT stoop to the level of it's opponent. That is not tradition in this nation.

But George Washington and his compatriots took their founding principles quite seriously. On Aug. 11, 1775, Washington sent a blistering letter to a British counterpart, Thomas Gage. He complained about gravely wounded and untreated American soldiers being thrown into a jail with common criminals.

Eight days later, despite threatening to treat British soldiers with equal cruelty, Washington admitted that he could not and would not retaliate in kind, writing: "Not only your Officers, and Soldiers have been treated with a Tenderness due to Fellow Citizens, & Brethren; but even those execrable Parricides [traitors] whose Counsels & Aid have deluged their Country with Blood, have been protected from the Fury of a justly enraged People."

And it is true that some of the detained were simple "goat herders". Have not some been released? Why? Because they were guilty?

Torture is not an effective interrogation technique in any case, but the Supreme Court has said specifically that the government cannot put aside a law prohibiting torture.

Again - you freaks just like death, destruction, and pain. Gets you hard, doesn't it?

12:29 PM

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