Right. Taking him prisoner is fine. He was acting as a soldier. He is not, however, being treated as a prisoner of war mush less a child soldier. Remember, Guantanamo is for the "worst of the worst," or so we are told.
On 7/16/08, Scott Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we need to take these cases one at a time. The article says that > he's the son of an alleged Al-Queda financier, and a Canadian citizen. They > never state that he was or wasn't on the battlefield. If a sixteen year old > want's to man up and fight so be it, but he needs to understand the > consequences of his actions, including being captured by the "enemy". > > I think we should've stuck to the Geneva Conventions, not for their sake but > for our own, by taking the moral high ground. We could've garnered more > international support for the mess in Iraq. Right now, if we look at the > detainees wrong, everyone is down our governmental throats. > > -- > Scott Stewart > ColdFusion Developer > 4405 Oakshyre Way > Raleigh, NC 27616 > (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 > -----Original Message----- > From: Rastafari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:15 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: why should i care... again??? > > http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080715/D91UFMQ80.html > > really... you are picked up on the field of battle > TRYING TO KILL AMERICANS > and you expect us to treat you well... > > waaaaahhhhh shoulda thought about that before you > > TRIED TO KILL FUCKING AMERICANS. > what do these people not get? > > and also, tell me something.... what prevents the USA from detaining > Ahmadinejad when he comes to New York again soon? Cant we prove > he is doing bad things in Iraq and feeding insurgent food, money, ammo? > > or is it because he is a head of state that we cant?? > > -- tony > > Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace. > -- siddhartha gautama > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:263930 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
