[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So now, a month or more after going it totally alone (apart from gutless > wonders like the current Australian government) the penny has finally > dropped. I hope it doesn't happen, but I can't see Iraq or Somalia or some > Colombian warlord going too kindly on your guys in the near future. > > Brett > > You mean, after a legal debate in which we decided to give the terrorists > _more_ protections than they actually deserved under the laws of war, you > think that our soldiers will be retaliated against because we had that > debate?
Forgive me for asking (and I'm sure I'll gett an earful of "you're an idiot" followups) but after reading the GC, isn't it up to an independent body of some fashion to decide the status? Where do we derive the power to decide their status under international law? > raped, the men beaten and (this seems familiar) tortured. The Somalis just > dragged the bodies of our soldiers through the streets. The one guy they > captured they beat and held for ransom. Actually, they turned him over once we made it perfectly clear that we'd take the country apart in the process of looking for him. No ransom was demanded or paid. -i- -- moo.
