To: FairOpinion
If those pics didn't have those smiling faces in them, this would not be the scandal it is. Hackworth knew this before he helped 60 Minutes II get the photos.
Stripping a POW of his clothes in not torture or inhumane treatment that violates the Geneva Conventions, but releasing photo's that humiliate the POW's is.
5 posted on
05/08/2004 10:58:26 PM PDT by
MJY1288
(Our Injured Soldiers at Walter Reed Have Yet to be Visited by John Kerry. What's he Afraid of?)
To: MJY1288
BUT the faces of the prisoners -- who are NOT, repeat NOT POW-s -- are covered, so there is no personal embarrassment.
Just a bunch of naked prisoner bodies.
10 posted on
05/08/2004 11:01:29 PM PDT by
FairOpinion
(If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
To: MJY1288
"Stripping a POW of his clothes in not torture or inhumane treatment that violates the Geneva Conventions," This was NOT all that was done.
Is being raped with a broomstick and chemlight torture?
Is having your hands and feet stomped on with combat boots?
Isn't it rape when an MP has sex with a prisoner?
Is it not torture when an attack dog is sicced on a prisoner, just for kicks?
Perhaps you need to read the Pentagon's own official report before you excuse such vile behavior. Behavior which, in fact, was aimed at NO military necessity and was instead done for the sheer fun of those who photographed it.
If everything that those degenerate clowns did was done to you, you'd call it torture for sure.
13 posted on
05/08/2004 11:06:10 PM PDT by
Long Cut
("Fightin's commenced, Ike, now get to fightin' or get outta the way!"...Wyatt Earp, in Tombstone)
To: MJY1288
Were these POWs? If they were what the press calls "insurgents," they were terrorists. To be POWs, they would have to be uniformed members of a legit army. These guys prob weren't even all Iraqis.
71 posted on
05/09/2004 2:09:55 AM PDT by
jaykay
To: MJY1288
Stripping a POW of his clothes in not torture or inhumane treatment that violates the Geneva Conventions, but releasing photo's that humiliate the POW's is.
If forcing subordinates to strip naked is a form of abuse then I have a good cause for litigation against the highschool P.E. teacher I had who made us all strip naked in front of each other and take showers together. If we were not wet enough once stepping out of the shower we had to go back in or take a lower grade.
I was wondering about the issue of releasing those photos and how they play into the Geneva convention. I thought it was against the convention to humiliate POWS by exposing their shame to the world. Will CBS be brought up on war crimes?
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