Posted on 09/28/2006 4:03:19 PM PDT by Libloather
Back in the day, anyone attacking any soldier (German, Japanese, American) was considered a spy and shot. People out of uniform are by definition, not covered by Geneva convention. This is yet another tactic employed by our enemy. It's a great tactic. We have to hold them forever and that fact alone becomes an asymetric warfare weapon. Those terrorist are just damn smart. And, Pelosi is just another useful fool.
The terrorist detention bill should give the US some cover but, it's still a pretty small fig leaf that the terrorist will be able to exploit.
Plus....there is nobody in uniform and/or no country in their hierarchy that can provide an unconditional surrender, etc..
I think Khalid Shaikh Mohammed will be standing trial before too long, Nancy.
As has often been said, dembulbs prefer elections involving 9 or less votes (ie, judical fiat). What she objects to is denying captured terrorist the full benefit of US criminal rights and full access to the US judiciary, undoubetly with US taxpayer paid counsel.
Since when has Nancy Pelosi believed in "values" ?
The Democratic party--"Siding with America's enemies since 1970"
Just a little bit of history. The North and South actually did have prisoner exchanges where opposite forces sent prisoners back to their own armies to fight again.
According to Federal War Department statistics, 24,000 Union soldiers died of wounds, starvation and disease in Southern prisons during four long years of war. This was a tragic rate. But even more tragic was that 26,000 Confederate soldiers died in Union prisons during the same period. Many of the Confederate deaths were unnecessary, because the Union Army had a wealth of food and medical supplies that could have been made easily available to their Southern prisoners. But Union authorities maliciously refused to do so. After the dust of war had settled, the South, having held 50,000 more prisoners than the North, had 4,000 fewer inmate deaths
By 1864, Confederate soldiers were outnumbered three or even four to one, and by this time the Union, with more than enough men to use as replacement troops, adamantly refused to cooperate in prisoner exchanges. The Union blockade of Southern ports helped prevent the replenishment of critical medical supplies and other essentials. But the decision that was most detrimental to Union prisoners in Confederate prison pens was the decision on the part of the federal government to discontinue a prisoner-exchange program between the North and South.
Within a two-week period, Southern representatives paid two visits to the U.S. Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, asking for prisoner exchanges. On the first visit, they offered to exchange prisoners of war man for man. On their second visit, the offer was to turn over all Union prisoners for all Confederate prisoners, even though the Confederacy held a great many more Union soldiers. And twice Stanton refused the Southern offer. The Confederates desperately thought of everything possible, up to kidnapping Lincoln and using him to force a prisoner exchange, to get their badly-needed manpower.
http://groups.msn.com/TheUltimateWarBetweenTheStatesDiscussionForum/general.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=655
thanx
Horse pucky
we had internment camps all over the US housing German prisoners until "Hostilities ended" = which is, I believe, our = an other countries = "history". You don't let the combatants loose to go back and join the enemy ranks.
I would, however, like to hear SOMEONE remind these Geneva Convention pukes that the rules only cover uniformed military of a country = anyone caught NOT in uniform, could be, and were, shot as spies. (This is why many soldiers, if doing 'spy' work, wore their uniforms under civilian clothes so that, if capture were imminent, they could strip them off and in " be in uniform.")
But of course, we know the dimRats are expert in bald faced lying and they know that the public schools have been so watered down that the younger generation doesn't know history
Bingo.
On the one hand, they're screaming the rights of these barbarians under the Geneva Convention that apply to uniformed enemy combatants of another country (wich they aren't) and the next under the U.S. Constitution as citizens (which they aren't)...Which, besides the deliberate duplicity, shows that they are still thinking of the the WOT as a law enforcement problem.
Impossible
That has worked successfully in the past - for the prisoners WE take...but hey, Popsicle Face, name me ONE time when our troops were treated humanely by the enemy.
What two faced rhetoric.
Where, in the meantime, is the hue and cry over what these barbarians have done with our troops and noncombatants?
Not a peep from any quarter...
As if these neanderthals would suddenly treat our troops = or anyone -= in any way other than barbaric, if only we'd coddle them more.
How about the Gitmos' get to eat the same meals our troops do? Can you imagine the screaming of inhumanity Pelosi and gang would engage in. "How dare you feed military rations to those poor dears." No, Instead, they get 3 full meals a day - especially cooked to their customs.
"The American people want those responsible for 9/11 to be prosecuted without further delay.
Has she been asleep for the last 5 years or what. Her words just reenforce the charge that Dems are still in the Sept. 10th, 2001 mode. Prosecuted? Lady, we're at war!!
Torture is having to listen to John Francois Kerry and San Fran Nan.
Screw you brain dead @$$holes!!
I'm perfectly happy with convicting, condemning, and executing them. Would that be definite enough for you, Nancy?
Every time I see or hear one of these loony Dems misquote the Bible it seems like blasphemy.
Is the eyebrow advocating that Judeo-Christian values be applied to Islamic fanatics? Uh, oh...
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