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Check12 Donating Member (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 04:38 PM
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Important comment made concerning missing soldiers
Many media outlets are describing the missing soldiers as having been "kidnapped"
Including a new story at rawstory.com

A point was recently made that if we are truly at war then the word "kidnapped" should be replaced with the word "captured" by the enemy and the soldiers should be considered prisoners of war.

I think it is very important to make this distinction. The soldiers should have legal POW status. Unfortunately, Rummy has made this a real problem now.
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Minnesota Libra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 04:44 PM
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1. OMG, let's hope their captors haven't/don't treat them like our..........
....military has treated "captives".
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 05:03 PM
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3. Wasn't it just last week some twit in the junta mouthed off about Geneva
Convention? How long before we find out what it is like without those rules of engagement? The world has been very patient with the US under Cheney, but it can't go on.

Hope America gets a posse together pretty soon. We need to clean up the gang that kidnapped, err, captured diplomacy and sane planning in D.C. The troops need us to watch their backs. The junta sure as hell doesn't give a damn about them.
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Minnesota Libra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 05:05 PM
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4. I couldn't agree with you more. nt
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 04:57 PM
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2. kidnapped - for reward. captured - for reward. Which reward?
Yes, let's hear it from war mongers about how captured soldiers shuold be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention!!!!!!!
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Joey Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-19-06 05:09 PM
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5. Bush and Rummy gave up the moral high ground on Prisoners n/t
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