RW radio host--'when have US POWs been treated accrdg to Geneva Convention

[bobbieinok]

this was demanded of caller who was attacking the use of torture b/c it might mean our soldiers might be mistreated....as usual, host did not let caller ever finish a sentence; he just kept repeating this question

[BuyingThyme]

1. Do you know who it was?

[bobbieinok]

8. dpn't know...was just going across the dial and was stopped by this

[LittleClarkie]

2. I go back to grade school for the answer

"Two wrongs don't make a right"

Or how about maybe America is supposed to be better than that.

And what happened to this administration being shocked about what happened at Abu Ghraib. You can't have it both ways. Either what those people did there was reprehensible, or it wasn't. It's like they're trying to say "What those soldiers did was awful and we don't condone it. But don't tell us that we can't do that kind of stuff if we want to. What if we need it?"

[melody]

3. So we're supposed to base our behaviors on that of our enemy?

Then who are we really fighting?

Typical wingnut babble.

[tsuki]

4. Two wrongs make a Right Winger.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[pokerfan]

7. Hah!

Love it!

Torture seldom works anyway. If it's timely information the prisoner will simply lie and delay. The most efficacious method of extracting useful intel is by simply being (gasp) nice:

A classic text on interrogating enemy captives offers a counterintuitive lesson on the best way to get information
http://www.budiansky.com/atlantic0506.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. At the very least our last good war

WW II... but hey who is counting?

By the way the Vietnamese did not sigh the Conventions (neither did the Japanese) and the Chinese and N.Koreans more or less did...

I'd ask this idiot when are you joining?

Their moral compass is that of a nazi

[ErisFiveFingers]

6. Which one?

No such thing as "THE geneva convention", rather it's been a bunch of agreements that have been built up over time (since 1864, to 1977). That short phrase (two words) should trip up the Moran for a second.

Then I'd tell the moran that it happened the last time Congress actually declared a state of War... way back in WWII. Which was long before the current set of agreements was ratified. WW II was bound by the 1929 rules. Right now, and since WW II, in other countries, we are merely "enemy combatants" who "hate their freedom".

:evilgrin:

[wellst0nev0ter]

9. I Think Less American POWs Have Died In Vietnamese Prisons

Than Iraqi detainees have died on our watch, if I'm not mistaken.