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  • Kerry: I'll Fight Terror Using the Geneva Convention

    05/14/2004 7:29:11 AM PDT · by kattracks · 79 replies · 168+ views
    NewsMax.com ^ | 5/14/04 | Carl Limbacher and the NewsMax.com staff
    Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that he'd do a better job than President Bush fighting the war on terror because he'd uphold the Geneva Convention, which prohibits pressuring detainees to talk to interrogators. "I will fight a more effective war on terror, because I would never have thrown out of the door or window the obligations of the Geneva Conventions," Kerry told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." The Geneva Convention mandates that POWs be protected from "coercion," "insults," and "unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind." It also requires that detainees be provided with monthly medical...