OT: Captured Troops

dogscoff · #1 March 24th, 2003, 04:33 PM

I hope the pictures are fakes, or that Iraq actually treats any prisoners of war it has taken according to agreed standards of human rights. Unfortunately Saddam hussein is more than capable of all kinds of atrocities, and he will do whatever he feels is necessary to generate unrest among the US public in the hopes that they call their troops home.

Also, the US should fulfil their own human rights obligations to the people held at camp X-Ray before they start quoting the Geneva Convention at other countries.

von_toaster · #2 March 24th, 2003, 05:58 PM

Dogscoff is right.
May I remind you of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners which, according to US, are not covered by the Geneva convention?

Aloofi · #3 March 24th, 2003, 06:05 PM

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Originally posted by von_toaster:
Dogscoff is right.
May I remind you of the Guantanamo Bay prisoners which, according to US, are not covered by the Geneva convention?

Right on. I find very inmoral to claim Geneva status when that status is not giving to your enemies.

I don't wanna think what the CIA is doing to those poor bastards in Guantanamo.
I don't care that much for the Al Qaeda ones, but many of them are etnic Pashtus from the Taliban who have nothing to do with 9/11.

Rollo · #4 March 24th, 2003, 06:14 PM

another fine statement from Secretery of Hypocrisy, D. Rumsfeld...

PsychoTechFreak · #5 March 24th, 2003, 06:24 PM

War prisoners in the hands of Iraqi: Never say die, yet! The US "preventive" attack shall be deemed to be a not legitimated and unnecessary attack, which it probably is, except for the home made legitimation based on prima facie evidence. For the moment the Iraqi are "bounded in honor" in order to prove this breach of international law. Or why do you think they have not yet used their weapons of mass destruction? Lurking doubts? US now have the obligation to find these evil weapon stocks to get at least a moral legitimation afterwards. In mourning for the dead everything is sa(i)d.

disabled · #6 March 24th, 2003, 06:29 PM

A large number of the prisoners in Cuba have been released already, I should point out.

But what I think people are forgetting is something mroe than slightly distrubing about that captured helicopter in Iraq.

There was no damage and it had a full missile compliment. What does that mean?

Rollo · #7 March 24th, 2003, 06:39 PM

That probably means that they had to emergency land before reaching their mission target.

[ March 24, 2003, 16:41: Message edited by: Rollo ]