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To: spanky_mcfarland
Guys:

I've got no truck for Al Quaeda or the Taliban. But the Red Cross was _created_ to assist prisoners of war. And that's what these guys are until they're tried and convicted.

Many of them aren't going to get executed. In some cases, we won't even know one way or the other (read the executive order.) Some of them will spend the rest of their lives in Minnesota or Illinois. Others will be repatriated. Some will have a bullet put through the back of their head. But until they do, they're POWs.

Don't knock the international Red Cross for doing their job. They minister to everyone, regardless of their affiliation. They got packages to our boys in Nam, they'll send observers in to try to keep people from killing our people in other areas and they get the word back when it doesn't work. That's their job and they generally do it pretty well.

Just as those SF and SAS guys did a good job of killing those m'f'kers.

19 posted on 12/01/2001 6:43:41 PM PST by Abn1508
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To: Abn1508
Reason number 815 why not to donate to the Red Cross...

My great uncle was a crewmember during WWII bombing missions over Nazi Germany. He frequently registered his disgust with the Red Cross because they'd charge the servicemen for coffee and donuts (even after returning from a life and death mission). He spoke very highly of the Salvation Army which gave freely to the servicemen.

24 posted on 12/01/2001 6:58:24 PM PST by spanky_mcfarland
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To: Abn1508
I've got no truck for Al Quaeda or the Taliban. But the Red Cross was _created_ to assist prisoners of war. And that's what these guys are until they're tried and convicted.

I'm going to state the obvious. They waived their prisoner-of-war status when they refused to surrender.

28 posted on 12/01/2001 9:10:32 PM PST by Havisham
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