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Re: GITMO
In an earlier post you asked why we couldn't use the same procedures that we used on the Nazis after WW II. Are you aware that they procedures currently being used by the military tribunals give the Gitmo detainees more procedual rights than the Nazis had in the war crimes tribunals after WW II.
Re: GITMO
It doesn't look like Obama's order really makes much difference: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/01 ... Page2.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
By the way, these guys are not US citizens and do not have rights under the Constitution. They may have rights under the Geneva Convention but not under the Constitution.
By the way, these guys are not US citizens and do not have rights under the Constitution. They may have rights under the Geneva Convention but not under the Constitution.
Re: GITMO
Purple,
Thanks for your service but the following is a)false and b)a calumny against all of us: "This is just as bad as what the NVA were doing to the likes of John McCain in the Hanoi Hilton."
We are not treating the prisoners at Gitmo anything like the NVA treated John McCain. We are not beating them, breaking bones, tying them into positions that cause permanent damager, not giving medical treatment or starving them. At worst, we waterboarded 3, repeat 3, prisoners. And that was the worst thing we have done. It is the only thing we have done that arguably relates to torture as historically understood.
So please let's at least get the facts right before we start making accusations.
Thanks for your service but the following is a)false and b)a calumny against all of us: "This is just as bad as what the NVA were doing to the likes of John McCain in the Hanoi Hilton."
We are not treating the prisoners at Gitmo anything like the NVA treated John McCain. We are not beating them, breaking bones, tying them into positions that cause permanent damager, not giving medical treatment or starving them. At worst, we waterboarded 3, repeat 3, prisoners. And that was the worst thing we have done. It is the only thing we have done that arguably relates to torture as historically understood.
So please let's at least get the facts right before we start making accusations.
Re: GITMO
Compared to what we did in WW II or almost any other war we have fought in our history, GITMO and the supposed torture there is small potatoes. War is ugly involving bad people doing bad things and good people doing just as bad or worse things. If anything, we have fought this war more cleanly than any other war we have fought in our history.