[bIlluminati]

The US is a signatory to the 1949 Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War.

The US is not a Signatory to the 1977 Additional Protocols of the Geneva Convention.

>/i> It gets more interesting than that. When Nixon unilaterally abrogated our treaty with the Chines, and negotiated with Red Chinese, the Supreme Court rule that a President has the Constitutional power to unilaterally abrogate a treaty. Does anyone have a cite on that?

for freedom,

[Prokopton]

"When Nixon unilaterally abrogated our treaty with the Chines, and negotiated with Red Chinese, the Supreme Court rule that a President has the Constitutional power to unilaterally abrogate a treaty. Does anyone have a cite on that?"

Jimmy Carter did this in 1979, not Nixon. Carter was sued by Congress and the Supreme Court ruled on it in Goldwater v. Carter:

http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/143/