he wants our POWs
treated humanely.. Mr. Bush are you fucking high? If they do have our men, if they weren’t killed right after that TV broadcast, you can guarenteee that they will be ab*ed and to*tur*d beyond belief. -snort- Yeah you would LIKE them to be treated “humanely” like our military is probably treating the I*aq*is POWs. There is no humane treatement of POWs on any side of war, no matter what leaders say. Utter bullshit.
March 24th, 2003 at 1:12 pm
we would stick to the Geneva convention though
March 24th, 2003 at 4:16 pm
We would?*L* At least on the media we would.
March 24th, 2003 at 4:33 pm
from what I’ve seen.. Saddam doesn’t care about his people enough to care what happens to the POW’s I do think we need to do whatever we can to find out if they are still alive and get them out.. I know people will say they’re trying but I think that would be one of the worst things to have to rely on your enemy for your life.
March 24th, 2003 at 7:48 pm
I was generalizing, i.e. in general we stick to the Geneva Convention. I did “hear” that US turned over some Al Qaeda operatives over to a different country for questioning because the US interrogation was limited by the fact that we had signed the Geneva Convention. I am sure there are times when loopholes were found and used. But even when we had these Al Qaeda members in our clutches we did not shoot them point blank and them expose their genitals and televise the whole thing for a good laugh. It is no less than I expected this is war after all. Also, this kind of thing has happened plenty of times before take Mogadishu for example. The difference is that this time it has media coverage.
March 24th, 2003 at 11:32 pm
I’d have to say that Bush wouldnt go any where near to the extent that the current Iraq regime would on how it treats POW’s.
March 25th, 2003 at 4:12 am
The Geneva Convention only requires countries in posession of POW’s to provide food, water, and shelter. The issue at hand revolves around Iraq broadcasting interviews of the POW’s. That act is what is considered to be in violation. You’ll never see a captured Iraqi soldier being interviewed.
The Geneva Convention has no provisions for prosecuting those responsible for torturing POW’s. Torture is not considered a war crime, oddly enough. There were two female US troops and forty-three (??) males that were POW’s of Iraq during Desert Storm. All were tortured, the women were raped, and there was nothing the US could do once they were repatriated.
You’ll note that we broadcast images of Iraqi POW’s. The reason we get away with that is troops who capitulate (fancy word for surrender) have to sign a declaration of surrender prior to being processed. But even then, you never see an interview, do you?
I will guarentee you this… there won’t be and Iraqi POW’s tortured. They penalty for torturing a POW is death. I can’t remember which Aricle of the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice) states that, but I have read it.
March 25th, 2003 at 3:10 pm
First off I would like to start this by saying please pray for Jessica Lynch. She is a 19 yr. old female missing in action. She was with the supply truck that was raided, but they have seen no sign of her with the rest of the POWs. She’s a tiny lil thing too.
Ok as far as following the Geneva Convention, if a US soldier is caught torturing a POW, the US will see to it that the soldier will pay the penalty. Court Marshall’s are no fun to deal with. They could face the death penalty for it. They pound that into soldier’s brains in basic training.
Iraq may not be following the codes of the convention, but someone from the US troops would be stupid not to.
They interviewed a woman on Good Morning America, she was a POW during the Desert Storm. She said they treated her very well. She actually gained a pound while she was there, and they checked on her after every raide near her prison to make sure she wasn’t hurt from the bombing. They never insulted her. She was very lucky to have gotten that sort of treatment. I pray that our POW’s are being treated this way, if at least not the men, then the women. But I hope ALL of them.
March 26th, 2003 at 1:56 am
Ok, the Iraquis will not be nice to our prisonners, even if we are nice to theirs… that’s unfortunate, but that’s how it goes, seeing as how we are “good” and they are “evil.” When we claim absolute moral authority, we ought to be able to back it up just a little bit now and then.
Shrubco has been sounding off forever about how EVIL Saddam is, now we’re all suprised when they actl like it.
March 26th, 2003 at 4:09 pm
I don’t think there are to many people here that are “surprised” at the videotapes we have received from the Iraquis.