Do as I say! Not as WE DO!
President Bush lashed out at Iran yesterday for detaining American citizens and called for them to be freed “immediately and unconditionally.” White House aides said the president broke his silence because of Tehran‘s decision to charge three of the four detainees.
Didn’t we have something called rendition, don’t we call terrorists enemy combatants to avoid the Geneva Convention? Don’t we keep the pow’s we capture off of US soil so we they can avoid trial, not get lawyers and we can hold them for as long as we want?
This is the kind of crap that happens to you when you don’t set an example. I would think there should be international support like there was for the British Sailors for these guys, but my guess is you wont see that support. All because they make their own fucking rules up and expect others to follow rules we don’t.
Hopefully those captured are ok, god knows our administration policies aren’t helping them…
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President Bush has always been a see as I say, don’t see as I do type of dictator. He will never have a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his desk ala Harry S. Truman. With “The Decider” someone else is always at responsible.
Our illegal detention of these detainees breaks every provision of The Geneva Convention, of which we are a signatory. They have never been formally charged, have been tortured, denied legal representation, and denied all contact with their families. Is it any wonder that they are commiting suicide. They have no hope and nothing to live for.
As a member of the Military Intelligence Corps, with the 25th Infantry Division in Vietnam, tortured was never authorized. It was stressed in intelligence school that torture was the worse method of obtaining accurate information. A prisoner who is physically coerced into talking, will most often provide false information. Acting on false information, rather than no information, is more likely te get our troopskilled. If King George asked our head General in Iraq, he would confirm this. But who wait, his name does sound an awful lot like “betray us.”
great points!
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