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Apeman81 · Jun 29, 2006, 06:19 pm

"So you are basically arguing that the Bush administration is not violating the Geneva Convention. The Supreme Court obviously is saying that you are wrong."

The USSC has adjudicated that the detainees, should they be tried for certain
criminal acts not directly related to combat operation, cannot be tried by military tribunal, but rather by a civilian court. The USSC has made NO statement about violation of the GA in relation to this case. Your interpretation of the case highlighted in this thread is flawed.

"Once upon a time, America stood for something more than brutality. Washington established as policy that all British prisoners would be treated humanely regardless of the abuses committed by the British against Americans. A 230 year old tradition of humanity trashed by the Bush administration. The Bushbots must be so pround, finally putting that wimp George Washington in his place."

The treatment of the detainees by American Forces are not only arguably within the limitations of the GA (no one has proven otherwise, nor has a serious protest been so adjudicated) but are closer to the intent of the GA than has been accorded by any other combatant nation in the last 100 years. Certainly better than how the enemy treats just about anyone they can get their hands on.

Stop the blind bush bashing bullshit and think before you spew.

"If we match barbarism with torture, murder with "collateral damage" where woman and children are blown away with a backhanded slur that it was "their own damn fault," then the difference between ourselves and our enemies gets pretty damn small."

It always the same tired line of "we shouldn't act like them", all or nothing, bilious swill.
No one is advocating decapitation of living captives. No one is advocating castrating the enemy.

As for collateral damage, try telling the shitbags to stop hiding behind women’s skirts to carry out their attacks. Have them put on a uniform and come and fight. Better yet, tell the foreign led scum to stop fighting for the right to maintain a repressive terror driven regime and go the hell home and rethink their perverted view of religion.

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Apeman81 Hot Lava Posts: 1,308	"So you are basically arguing that the Bush administration is not violating the Geneva Convention. The Supreme Court obviously is saying that you are wrong." The USSC has adjudicated that the detainees, should they be tried for certain criminal acts not directly related to combat operation, cannot be tried by military tribunal, but rather by a civilian court. The USSC has made NO statement about violation of the GA in relation to this case. Your interpretation of the case highlighted in this thread is flawed. "Once upon a time, America stood for something more than brutality. Washington established as policy that all British prisoners would be treated humanely regardless of the abuses committed by the British against Americans. A 230 year old tradition of humanity trashed by the Bush administration. The Bushbots must be so pround, finally putting that wimp George Washington in his place." The treatment of the detainees by American Forces are not only arguably within the limitations of the GA (no one has proven otherwise, nor has a serious protest been so adjudicated) but are closer to the intent of the GA than has been accorded by any other combatant nation in the last 100 years. Certainly better than how the enemy treats just about anyone they can get their hands on. Stop the blind bush bashing bullshit and think before you spew. "If we match barbarism with torture, murder with "collateral damage" where woman and children are blown away with a backhanded slur that it was "their own damn fault," then the difference between ourselves and our enemies gets pretty damn small." It always the same tired line of "we shouldn't act like them", all or nothing, bilious swill. No one is advocating decapitation of living captives. No one is advocating castrating the enemy. As for collateral damage, try telling the shitbags to stop hiding behind women’s skirts to carry out their attacks. Have them put on a uniform and come and fight. Better yet, tell the foreign led scum to stop fighting for the right to maintain a repressive terror driven regime and go the hell home and rethink their perverted view of religion.