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To: freespirited
McCain and the other 3 senators are only trying to show how strong they are and that they alone can stand up to The President. McCain should never be president and I for one will never ever vote for him or Graham or Wagner or Collins.

McCain says he is doing this to protect our troops if they get captured. What a line of bull. There has never been one US enemy that has adhered to the GC. As reported on Fox with Brit Hume yesterday, the European courts have already defined their interpretation of article 3, so why can't we? The European courts stated that not providing a captured soldier a private toilet, or playing loud noise, is against the GC. I think the band of 4 are using this as a political stunt and we the American people will suffer for it.

I have written to all 4 senators expressing by disappointment in their stand and we should be calling them all of them on Monday. We need to speak up and let them know how we feel about their decision.
17 posted on 09/16/2006 7:20:35 AM PDT by bobsunshine
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To: bobsunshine
***There has never been one US enemy that has adhered to the GC.***

Actually there was - one. Germany in WWII.

The POWS in Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht camps were treated in accordance with the GC.

In fact the Soviet soldiers in the German POW camps did not want to be repatriated back to the USSR, but they were. Then Stalin killed them and/or sent them to Siberian Gulags for 'treason'.

32 posted on 09/16/2006 7:37:02 AM PDT by Condor51 ("Alot" is NOT a word and doesn't mean "many". It is 'a lot', two separate words.)
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