OT: Captured Troops

[dogscoff]

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

So?

[Aloofi]

Well, now Bush can justify his war.

He can say: "This war is being waged to save the lives of our brave soldiers illegally captured by the evil Irakis"

With the ChickenHawk Brigade in the Whitehouse you never know......

[dogscoff]

Well, now Bush can justify his war.

He can say: "This war is being waged to save the lives of our brave soldiers illegally captured by the evil Irakis"

lol! That would be funny if I thought he wouldn't do it- and he'd probably make it stick too, because people are so ready to believe anything they are told when this kind of patriotic frenzy is whipped up.

[Aloofi]

By the way, who was the first showing enemy prisioners of war on TV?
CNN or Iraki TV?

[Phoenix-D]

"By the way, who was the first showing enemy prisioners of war on TV?
CNN or Iraki TV?"

Just curious, but what does this have to do with anything?

Phoenix-D

[phaet2112]

Illuminating the hypocritical nature of the sec. of defense and our own media (Paula Zahn on CNN the morning the men and women were shown on video saying "this is ghastly and disgusting." yet cuts to our own footage of us leading iraqi troops away.) And loudly proclaming how many troops we've captured, and how well we are treating them, in comparison to the people still detained at guantanomo bay or the possibly hundreds we've killed in afghanistan.

[PsychoTechFreak]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:


Just curious, but what does this have to do with anything?

Phoenix-D

It is a breach of Geneva Convention? Yes indeed, POWs have NOT to be shown in TV !

Article 13

Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated. Any unlawful act or omission by the Detaining Power causing death or seriously endangering the health of a prisoner of war in its custody is prohibited, and will be regarded as a serious breach of the present Convention. In particular, no prisoner of war may be subjected to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are not justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the prisoner concerned and carried out in his interest.

Likewise, prisoners of war must at all times be protected , particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity . Measures of reprisal against prisoners of war are prohibited.

But who cares, god bless america.

[ March 25, 2003, 21:56: Message edited by: PsychoTechFreak ]