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Originally posted by Stone Mill:
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1. News agencies are reporting that the SSgt who ran the camp somewhat claimed something to the effect that he wasn't trained on the geneva convention. Hogwash. I remember during my service that was reinforced ad nauseum, from basic training to promotion tests. He should have known better.

Geneva convention ?
AFAIK the Geneva convention is not in effect in Iraq. The Geneva convention regulates (among other things) how to treat prisoners of war. Apart from Saddam himself (and maybe a select few others) there are no Prisoners of War in Iraq. Only detainees and terror suspects. The great GWB himself set the standard how to treat those when he set both the Geneva convention and US law aside with the Guantamo prisoners. Why should the prisoners in Iraq have a different and better status ? The blame goes all the way to the top.