Many US casualties in Nassiriya battle; Footage of POWs, including woman, shown on Iraqi TV

Al Bawaba ^ | 23-03-2003, 16:47

[KC Burke]

Askel's a very angry young woman, and she's taking it out on the country.

The last time my wife and I spent a social evening with her she was as pleasant and charming as always. She actually is most charitable and, I might mention, spoke of you as someone who, though she differed with you quite frequently, she appreciated, respected and thought of with great regard.

Likewise, I also felt differently than Askel on some topics, and wouldn't have found it difficult to quote chapter and verse from the actual Geneva Convention text just as I did at the time of the Al Qaeda captures, but alas, such effort is wasted now, its so much easier to cast them aside and pretend they are just the sum of a few comments rather than a valid compatriot.

[Sandy]

Touché.

[Nebullis]

Late to the purge. She was my first human contact on the forum.

[eastsider]

I understand that Askel5 still gets our FReepmail and pings. I suspect FR will eventually reinstate her posting privileges; however, I'm not making book on whether we'd actually ever see her post here again. : )

[Jhoffa_]

SO THIS is what got Askel5 Banned.. I didn't know what she got it for exactly.

I am not informed enough on the Geneva convention to make comments on it, so will you explain it to me before I make a decision on whether she is being anti-American?

Sure.. First of all, the "Geneva Convention" is a misnomer. There were several (4, I believe..) "Geneva Conventions" Both Iraq and the United States are signatories.

Askel is wrong in this case, the Geneva Convention is applicable.

Begin with 4th Geneva Convention. Part 1, Act 2.

That said however, I am sorry to see her go. I didn't follow her posts very closely, except some of the ones on abortion.. I caught some of those. I remember her as being very polite, very intelligent, even tempered, staunchly religious & unapologetically Pro-Life.

Anyone willing to speak out for the unborn automatically get's a good deal of respect in my book. You can't kill a dog the way we destroy millions of children today, I don't know why some "Conservatives" will rail endlessly about the "immorality" of taxes, then clam up entirely on religious matters and abortion:

"Go ahead and shred kids up with a vacuum tube, that's okey-fine, see you in church... but watch the 'immoral' taxes, will ya? I am a 'Conservative' ya know.."

It's a mystery for all time if you ask me.

I don't know what led to this blow up, but I wish it hadn't have come to this. She's wrong and this entire "Geneva Convention" argument could have been put down with 1 post.

[Texas Mom]

He noted that under the Geneva Conventions governing prisoners of war, "It's illegal to do things to POWs that are humiliating to those prisoners."

I am so sick of hearing this. The Geneva Convention was in 1949 and from what I can tell we are the only ones who know what it even says. The Iraqis are Barbarians.