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To: elfman2
" Our detainees are not treated as POWs nor will they be under this legislation."

You're mistaken.

298 posted on 10/06/2005 5:26:56 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: spunkets
" You're mistaken. "

If you say so… You should write and correct the Attorney General on what he thinks POW treatment entails:

"Gonzales authored a January 2002 memo to the President advising against Colin Powell's plea that the President reverse his earlier decision that Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners were not prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions entitled to their protections. In it, Gonzales wrote that, "In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions requiring that captured enemy be afforded such things as commissary privileges…athletic uniforms and scientific instruments." Gonzales later approved an August 2002 Justice Department opinion, written at the CIA's request, that defined torture -- illegal under U.S. law and international convention -- to be the infliction of pain "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death."

307 posted on 10/06/2005 6:32:01 PM PDT by elfman2
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