Democrats, Iraqi Prisoners and the Geneva Convention

One of the biggest complaints about the Iraqi prison abuse scandal is the claim that U.S. soldiers violated the Geneva Convention by subjecting detainees to humiliation and intimidation tactics in a bid to get them to talk.

Democrats are griping the loudest about this. Typical was Tuesday's tirade by Sen. Hillary Clinton to CNN's Wolf Blitzer:

She fumed: "Well, first of all, Wolf, there is the Geneva Convention about the treatment of prisoners of war and there is protocol that certainly members of the Intelligence Committee and others have been briefed on as to what is expected with respect to interrogations carried out in the name of the United States."

Newsflash to Sen. Clinton, and all the others who may have forgotten that the Pentagon expressly exempted terrorist suspects - which is what many of the captured Iraqis are - from Geneva Convention protections at the outset of the war on terror.

"The Pentagon has avoided formal Geneva Convention status because it doesn't want al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners to be able to hide behind 'name, rank and serial number.'

That's why, strictly speaking, the Iraqi insurgents being held at the Al Ghraib prison haven't been accorded Prisoner of War status.

If Americans want to suddenly change that, fine. But they should be mindful of the potential consequences.

Just last month Jordanian security forces foiled an al Qaeda weapons of mass destruction plot that could have killed up to 80,000 people. Jordanian TV ran videotaped confessions from the suspects, one of whom admitted he was trained in Iraq by Osama bin Laden's WMD specialist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

It's a fair bet that the Jordaniains didn't extract this information by adhering to the Geneva Convention protocols.

Zarqawi and his minions are still on the loose in Iraq, plotting to do the same to Americans at home as well as U.S. forces there.

If captured and interrogated, nothing would please them more than to be able to invoke the Geneva protocols - and promptly clam up about the next WMD plot they have in the works.

Could someone help me please ?
Help me to understand Why i should give a damn about these Scumbags being humiliated when any one of them would strap on a bomb or take up a nice hiden perch somewhere and kill our boys at the nod of a hat !

Or kill their own people with the same uncaring disgrace

On 911 we lost 3000 people + from that day forward as far as im concerned the war should have been no holds bared !

This President has been a great wartime leader in my book he has a crack staff on his side and the majority of the American people are behind him so why the kid gloves when it comes to these detainees ? they are SCUM and they will see us dead if they have the chance .

Why are we wasting time on something that the miltary has already been investigating since last fall?

I hate these people and they are giving me no reason to like them PERIOD !

So why should i care if they are forced to have sex or drink koolaid made from pig blood

Humiliation is mild compared to what my mind thinks they deserve!

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