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The treatment of prisoners from the country you are fighting has been regulated by the Geneva accords. However, the prisoners you will find in Guantanamo do not come from an enemy country. They are combatants in a asymmetric war and treatment of them has not been regulated by any treaty ratified by Congress.

Even if we did sign an agreement with Iran to treat terrorist prisoners humanely, no terrorist would say that such an agreement applied to them. They would still cut off heads. Saying that we are going to treat prisoners humanely only makes us feel good while the terrorists continue to chop heads. Kind of high cost for that tingle up the leg.

However, the prisoners you will find in Guantanamo do not come from an enemy country.

I don't think it is appropriate to regulate one's behavior toward another based upon "country of origin" or "what he was wearing". Moral concepts seem rigid to me.

...no terrorist would say that such an agreement applied to them. They would still cut off heads.

My behavior is not determined by the misbehavior of another. I make my own way through this issue. I've never been one to follow the croud.

I'm not sure you've read all of my posts. I am all in favor of DECLARING war and wiping those people off the face of the earth. It is the cowardly act of brutalizing people who are bound and hooded that bugs the crap out of me.