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Kerry: I'll Fight Terror Using the Geneva Convention
NewsMax.com ^
| 5/14/04
| Carl Limbacher and the NewsMax.com staff
Posted on 05/14/2004 7:29:11 AM PDT by kattracks
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that he'd do a better job than President Bush fighting the war on terror because he'd uphold the Geneva Convention, which prohibits pressuring detainees to talk to interrogators.
"I will fight a more effective war on terror, because I would never have thrown out of the door or window the obligations of the Geneva Conventions," Kerry told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."
The Geneva Convention mandates that POWs be protected from "coercion," "insults," and "unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind."
It also requires that detainees be provided with monthly medical checkups and a store to shop in, as well as requiring that facilities be made available for "the practice of intellectual, educational, and recreational pursuits, [including] sports and games amongst prisoners."
Kerry didn't explain how guaranteeing terrorist suspects a better lifestyle than our own soldiers would keep America safe. But he insisted, "I know, as a former combatant, that, had I been captured, I would have wanted our moral high ground with respect to those Geneva Conventions to be in place."
In fact, when Kerry served in Vietnam, the North Vietnamese abrogated the Geneva Convention as a matter of course, routinely torturing U.S. POWs.
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: footinmouthdisease; jeanfrancois; johnkerry; kerry; kerryfool; kerrygeneva
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:29:14 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Yeah, our respect for the Geneva conventions really kept the terrorists at bay the past, eh, Kerry?
I don't think I'll ever be able to comprehend the liberal mindset.
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:31:04 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(John Kerry - Hillary without the fat ankles and the FBI files...)
To: kattracks
This guy is soooo pathetic.
3
posted on
05/14/2004 7:31:52 AM PDT
by
twntaipan
(demoncRATS are a threat to security of the USA.)
To: kattracks
geez. like can this guy get anymore lunatic?
4
posted on
05/14/2004 7:32:55 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
To: kattracks
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The path to UN rule under Kerry is short.
5
posted on
05/14/2004 7:33:14 AM PDT
by
rintense
(Screw justice. I want revenge.)
To: dirtboy
Hey, Lurch...you want to know what most of our enemies think of the Geneva Conventions?
Ask John McCain.
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:34:44 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(Kerry 2004-Democrat for President* *Subject to change at any time.)
To: kattracks
Well, he's got the al-Quaeda vote in the ol' bag...
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:34:56 AM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: kattracks
This is a good idea. Kerry should immediately travel to Iraq or Afghanistan, and negotiate with Al Queso Al Qaeda to sign the thing.
Bring a camera, John.
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:35:01 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: kattracks
"I will fight a more effective war on terror, because I would never have thrown out of the door or window the obligations of the Geneva Conventions," Kerry told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."F'ing kerry more than likely could say,
"I violated the Geneva Conventions in Vietnam, before I was against not using the Geneva Conventions in the War on Terror."
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:35:15 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(The mainstream media is part of the al Queda terrorist network.)
To: dirtboy
"I don't think I'll ever be able to comprehend the liberal mindset."
Let me help you out if I may. Either place your head up your a** or into the sand. When you are finished, have a sip of Koolaid to refresh yourself.
Now you are a flaming liberal.
To: kattracks
His attempts at trying to differentiate himself from Bush are becoming so desperaate his statements are becoming laughable. Look at the mental gymnastics he had to go through to come up with this ludicrous statement.
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:36:48 AM PDT
by
CaptRon
(Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
To: kattracks
I'm surprised he didn't say he'd fight terror with love, understanding, and his outstanding record in Vietnam.
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:36:57 AM PDT
by
LanPB01
To: kattracks
>> Kerry didn't explain how guaranteeing terrorist suspects a better lifestyle than our own soldiers would keep America safe. <<
Ketchup boy is a moron and if elected, is going to get many more of us killed, on our own soil.
13
posted on
05/14/2004 7:38:03 AM PDT
by
appalachian_dweller
(The RIGHT of THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.)
To: kattracks
Shameless pussy placemarker.
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:38:10 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Spirit of '76 bttt!)
To: camle
" ... geez. like can this guy get anymore lunatic?"
Sure, just wait to see what he says tomorrow. Maybe even his wife will give it another go.
15
posted on
05/14/2004 7:40:07 AM PDT
by
snooker
(John F'n Kerry, the enemy's choice in Vietnam, the enemy's choice in Iraq.)
To: headsonpikes
I'll second that placemarker
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:40:19 AM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(sKerry is a sKunk!!)
To: headsonpikes
So Kerry wants to protect America by only asking terrorists for their name, rank, date of birth and service number? Those are the only things prisoners have to reveal under the Geneva Convention.
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:40:50 AM PDT
by
blanknoone
(How many flips would a flip-flop flop if a flip-flop could flop flips?)
To: kattracks
I have to believe that most Americans don't give a RATS tail how we treat terrorists in our custody, if its going to save American lives. If your enemies are unmerciful, than you must fight them with twice the horror.
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:41:28 AM PDT
by
Heff
("Liberty is not America's gift to the world, it's the Almighty's gift to humanity" GW Bush 4/12/04)
To: kattracks
These aren’t POWS, they’re illegal combatants and should be treated as spies: shot on sight!
To: kattracks
The scary thing is that there a people who believe the things he says to be true.
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posted on
05/14/2004 7:42:45 AM PDT
by
seastay
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