guantanamo resort.
David Rivkin seems to miss the point. He says the UN is stretching the anti-torture laws to the inmates at Guantanamo simply being held is ignoring the rules of war: mainly if you capture an enemy you have the right to hold them until the war is over. However he misses the point that holding them under the "Enemy Combantant" monicur allows the Bush administration to completely ignore the Geneva Convention when dealing with these individuals. (Actually he ignores this point, and pretends like it is the same as POW status).Either charge them, treat them like they should be treated (like POW's) or let them go.
Listen to the interview... form your own thoughts.
posted by F.G. Shaw @ 5:30 PM
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If they would just give us information!
most don't have any information and we're in fact picked up simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. many we're coerced into joining the military (threatened with thier lives), it'd be like picking up a bagger at smiths and wanting to know how the upper echelons of the corporation work.
my biggest problem with us holding them isn't that it is not the logical thing to do -capture the enemy- during a conflict. it's that we are not giving them the status that they deserve which is POW. the primary reason for us excluding this status is so the Bush Administration can use unconventional and unexceptable means of extracting information out of them. let's call them what they are and treat them thusly, or let them go (particullary the ones that have no information and did not act necessarily, willingly).
also, most are there because they were turned in for a ransom. So scrupulous Iraqis (who were running around like mad trying to find ways to make a buck) turned in strangers, neighbors, even relatives claiming they were Al Qaida, getting their reward and disappearing.
The whole Guantanamo thing stinks like nothing else (except maybe the fraudulent war itself - last count over 2500 US soldiers and over 50,000 Iraqis dead, untold wounded for life). It's just another lie perpetrated by Bush.
And he can't back down, just like he can't back down from the war. It would be admitting to the lies. So it just gets worse. He'll pass it off to the next poor bastard who becomes president and the lies from the right will continue even then as they'll try to use that issue to score more voter points.
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