Wow you couldn't be more wrong. First off, I didn't see any uniforms or Geneva id cards or the necessary id (some tied around your arm, uniform) required for them to fall under the GCs protections at all.
You're making something of nothing. I've been taking land warfare classes every so often for years. We have to. > -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:58 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Obama Inauguration Thread > > > RoMunn wrote: > > Administration had to make some judgment as to whether the > GC applied. > > They decided it didn't. End of story. > > > > The US signed an international agreement to abide by certain > behavior which, if violated, opens up the US to international > prosecution by a world court. That's the end of the story. > > The only way the US could protect Bush would be to withdraw > from the Geneva Convention and that still wouldn't protect > him because the crimes were perpetrated on his watch AND you > don't have to signatory to be tried. > > The Supreme Court cannot stop any of the 145+ countries from > apprehending and prosecuting Bush, Cheney, or anyone else > that's committed war crimes. > > The current standoff is ONLY DUE to the fact that none of > those countries have sent a team to arrest Bush, Cheney or the others. > > Thus it's not only possible, but probable, that should Obama > not pursue war crimes, someone else will. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:285743 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
