From: "Mark" 

You miss the point too Adam.

"Adam"  wrote in message
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> Mark wrote:
>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote: The
point here is simple: if
>> America is seen as giving political actors
>>
>>>like the President the ability to essentially suspend the Geneva
>>>Conventions through creative re-interpretation, there is nothing to stop
>>>other nations from doing the same to our troops when they are captured...
>>
>>
>> Has any other country at any time, in any war, ever followed the Geneva
>> Conventions in their treatment of our prisoners of war? Has any stateless
>> terrorist group ever done so? Do you really think if we hire bi-planes to
>> tow banners across the world that we absolutely follow the Geneva
>> Conventions in all cases, even when not warranted, that any less heads
>> will be cut off on video?
>>
>> I didn't think so. > is simply faulty>
>
> nah let's scrap the GC as an yet another impediment to the CiC of the USA
> in his grand quest to rid the world of politcal violence & nasty
> behaviour...oh wait ain't that what the US is engaged in....so then it's
> his quest to ensure that somehow people will allow only the US to engage
> in political violence & nasty behaviour...
>
> Adam

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