here's what i can discern from the dictionary.
COMBATANT: n. one, such as a person or a combat vehicle that takes part in an armed strife.
ENEMY: One who feels hatred toward, intends injury to, or opposes the interests of another; a foe.
A hostile power or force, such as a nation.
A member or unit of such a force.
A group of foes or hostile forces. Something destructive or injurious in its effects: “Art hath an enemy called Ignorance” (Ben Jonson).
Now what exactly is a prisoner of war?
PRISONER OF WAR: N. A person taken by or surrendering to enemy forces in wartime.
hmmmm ok.
well guess what, i can discern that an enemy combantant is "a member of a hostile force, who is taking part in an armed strife"
now, i've never personally been in a war, but i can imagine that the individuals who become prisoners of war, were shortly before hand enemy combatants.
so why don't enemy combatants get the same treatment as prisoners of war?
oh yes... i remember.. so our goverment can extort confessions out of them through physical and psychological stress and strain.
i hate using the word torture in that case, as our goverment doesn't approve of torture.
in fact the senate has passed a bill forbidding torture, and our goverment -the folks in the whitehouse that is- is all for it.... AS LONG AS the CIA is exempt.
hmmm something doesn't sit right with that.
if the government doesn't aprove of torture, and doesn't aprove of its use, why would it threaten to veto a bill if it does not have the clause to make a government agency exempt from it?
does that seem funny to all of you too?
the government got around the Geneva Convention by calling the prisoners of war... i mean folks they captured, enemy combatants, which from what i can discern is like calling a pumpkin a squash (which it is a type of) or a zuccini a squash.
now they want to make the CIA exempt from an anti-torture law....
do they really think we're that stupid?
oh wait...
yes. yes they do.
posted by F.G. Shaw @ 3:28 PM
4 Comments:
You are so right about the goverment thinking that we the little man are stuipid, but reallatie is that they really think that wee are brainless and consider us as puppets that they have put on strings and can yank us around when ever they want so in reallatie the people that we vote into office have become the emenie, to us the little people that depend on then for help.
I, am an enemy combatant!
Beware, for I shall infiltrate your base,steal your brauts,rap your horses and make off with your women!
rap your horses?!? sort of a Tupac thing?
Frank - yes, I am officially in the bitchcake cyber world. I am the unofficial 'favorite uncle'. Okay with me. Thanks for checking me out. It'll be fun to surf around and see what everyone is up to and thinking.
As for enemy combatants; don't you hate the 'paint' game? All the propogandistic naming of this person or that to keep the non-curious in line. 'Enemy combatant? Must be a bad guy.' People not seeing through the simplistic mind-games of the Bushies drives me crazy. And the press letting it go forward and being a hapless or willing vessel for the propaganda pisses me off more than I can say. Go see the new George Clooney movie about Edward R. Murrow and reminisce about the way it used to be and the way it should be today.
GODDAMN THAT'S FUNNY. Hey Bruce, you forgot the E at the end of rapE.... damn, i thought i had put that as a blog title...sorry for the misunderstanding.
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