[R. Scott]

What happened to “jihadists deserve no quarter!

I’m still waiting for the “Rumsfeld said” verification. Also, “Should” means “it would be nice if”, “Shall” means “You will do”.

None of the group Bush, Rumsfeld, or the Pentagon condoned, would condone, or authorized this stuff.

Not if they wanted to keep their careers. It ain’t PC.

[spunkets]

"What happened to “jihadists deserve no quarter!"

It still stands. If they are dead, or prisoners though, they are no longer effective jihadists. Then they're cadavers, or prisoners.

" RUMSFELD: Well, the _ as the chief of staff of the Army can tell you, the guards are trained to guard people. They're not trained to interrogate, they're not _ and their instructions are to, in the case of Iraq, adhere to the Geneva Convention.
The Geneva Conventions apply to all of the individuals there in one way or another. They apply to the prisoners of war, and they are written out and they're instructed and the people in the Army train them to that and the people in the Central Command have the responsibility of seeing that, in fact, their conduct is consistent with the Geneva Conventions.
The criminals in the same detention facility are handled under a different provision of the Geneva Convention _ I believe it's the fourth and the prior one's the third.
MCCAIN: So the guards were instructed to treat the prisoners, under some kind of changing authority as I understand it, according to the Geneva Conventions?
RUMSFELD: Absolutely.