--- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If this is true, then it is an extremely serious > manner. It would be > admitting deliberate, systematic, authorized > violations of the Geneva > Convention. That is not just the actions of a few > bad apples. It seems to > me to be high level illegal orders. I'll stand > being corrected by someone > who better understands the military, but I cannot > see how a general could > legally order his reports to delibrately violate a > treaty agreed to by the > United States. > > Dan M.
I don't know the details (am still at work at 11:00pm, so I'm not exactly following the news) but it's not clear that insurgents captured in Iraq are covered by the Geneva Conventions, for the same reasons we've gone over on this list on several occasions. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - Buy advance tickets for 'Shrek 2' http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1808405861
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