Let it be known to whomever is holding the US Soldiers, We expect you to .

follow the Geneva Conventions in the treatment of US Soldiers held captive.

Question: Can the above statement be made publicly with a straight face after what has/is transpiring at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo?

Is enough of a hypocrite to have said that . . . ?

But isn't interesting how these nitwits have put these soldiers lives at risk by not adhereing to the Geneva Conventions.

have stood for all these years. All bets are now off. They'll reap what they've sown, except it won't be with their own blood.

What the hell else can they say? Don't torture them the way we torture your guys?

We're fools for talking about the Geneva Conventions when it's goddamn barbarians we are facing, dammit.

:sarcasm:

Because what B*sh might do and what our soldiers will do can be two different things.

I always thought we should be concerned about an outside insurrgency - They don't live there, they have no interest about the consequences there. But if you lived there - whole nother story.

One thing about american soldiers - they protect their own. They always will.

And those are our kids out there right now. Not B*sh's. And they are, generally, pretty good kids.

I think almost all war is wrong. This more than others. But I have no doubt at all, that given the horror of war, our kids have more of a conscience than any other army ever assembled.

B*sh not whithstanding.

Those kids need to be brought home right now!!!

Joe

It would be a bold and honorable descision *if* you would follow the Geneva Conventions and treat our soldiers better than we have treated yours. What better way to illistrate the war crimes that bush* has committed in Iraq and against her citizens and show him to be the lying pig that he is.

The world is watching.

no better way to show that Bush is the barbarian than by treating US military captives humanely.

Over the next 40 plus years of pillaging Iraq,
Just another statistic to be downplayed by the
Compassionate Conservative Republicans.

in the first place will be so the US does not have to define or legitimize the enemy. This allows the fog that allows the rape of Iraq. The soldiers are of NO concern to Bushco. It was not to protect soldiers committing war crimes but to protect the lawless hand of the administration.

It happens in all wars, it is nothing special about this one, not at all.

But this time, we started it.

Only a fool starts a war. And only an idiot thinks there is a winner.

Those are our kids, dude.

Joe

Dick captured the troops and turned them ALL over to his gang. If we don't keep paying, they don't get food and water.

Get to the root of the problem - Dick Cheney working for the good of the corporation. He set the troops up and he set up the violations of Geneva that will cause them great horrors from an enraged people.

Drag him outta the bunker and send him to the Hague.

Everything Eisenhower said was true.

They don't give a shit about your kids. They never did.

The war insured the results.

Yep, drag them outta the bunker alright.

Joe

that happens to these brave young men is to have panties placed on their heads and humiliating pictures taken of them, then I, for one, will be thrilled. Unfortunately, having seen the decapitation videos, I am afraid for their ultimate fate.

Angela, praying for the troops.

I am stating that our troops are not in the habit of hacking the heads off of our ememies and broadcasting it to the world. Al Queda is, and from all indications, that's who's holding them.

Clear enough?

The things they did to the Iraqis consisted of rape, beatings, suffocations, etc. I hope that isn't what you're wishing on the kidnapped troops..

must have been gotten a massive infection from the panties or maybe they were allergic to flashbulbs, i dunno know

violence begets more violence, brutality begets more brutality

I am also in fear for their lives, if our soldiers are tortured, it will be at least partially our fault. Who knows what would have happened had we prepared our soldiers properly for their assignments of guarding prisoners, and the B*sh WH didn't show blatant disregard for international treaties as an example.

Enjoy your stay at DU :hi:

but have they decapitated any uniformed US military personnel? I don't think so.



As far as I can tell, they have decapitated some captured "civilian contractors" who entered Iraq looking to make a fast buck.

Not that it isn't outrageous but they also are not uniformed (i.e. a defined "enemy") military personnel.

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com

Two Captured American Soldiers and the Implied "What If":

Chances are, maybe even by the time you read this, the two American soldiers, captured by Mujahideen Shura Council in Iraq, will be dead, probably in some horrible way, probably with their bodies dumped like all the horribly murdered Iraqis in the blood and gore-strewn landscape that are the markers of Iraqi liberation. The Rude Pundit can't help thinking, though, about the implied "What if" of the capture, on the field of battle, of American soldiers, prisoners of war, if you will.

The argument as gone that other countries don't follow the Convention, so why should we. It was wrong for us. It will remain wrong for anyone else.

Go to his site and check out his comments. As usual, no one does it better......

But once they do, how can we laugh about it when the situation is so serious? Does the White House think the Geneva Convention is so "quaint" now? :grr:

If the US is at War why are these troops not being called POWs? The US is not "at War" in Iraq. The US is in an Occupation mode. This is why these troops were "kidnapped", not captured.

and MAIMED soldiers......