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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
Donut - I think you (and the others) are overlooking a few fundamental differences between the clips of American POW's and Saddam Hussein.
First of all, the American soldiers were Prisoners of War. Saddam Hussein is not. He is a man wanted for crimes against humanity. Big Difference!!! He is a simply a captured criminal. And showing a video of his capture is no different than showing video of any other well-known criminal that had been captured after a long manhunt. "
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Not so Cerek - Rumsfield has said: "that captured former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) will be treated as a prisoner of war in accordance with the Geneva conventions."
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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
As for your charges of hypocrisy against Bush, I would just point out that Bush was NOT the one who claimed the video clips of the American POW's violated the G.C. to begin with. That was Rumsfeld (as you pointed out). Secondly, do you REALLY believe President Bush could have prevented the media from airing the clips of Saddam Hussein. If he had tried to prevent the broadcast of the clip, the networks would be SCREAMING that their First Amendment Rights were being violated. So Bush couldn't have prevented the clip from being shown even if he had wanted to.
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Could the US military or officials present could easily have stopped the filming taking place in the first place ? That is the point where the GC code was broken.
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Originally posted by Cerek the Barbaric:
I am equally dimayed that one of the most evil men to live in our lifetime has finally been captured and will stand trial for his crimes,
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I've never known you to be sarcatic Cerek so I'm hoping this is a typo, I hope that you aren't suggesting that I'm 'dismayed' that Saddam has been captured. My view is that there could be no conclusion to the situatiuon in Iraq until he was captured. In the short term there will be an increase in the attacks on the coalition. More foreign terrorists will go to Iraq. The resistance will increase because people who previously were not part of it because they would not support Hussein will now join a 'nationalist' resistance. Arabs who already hate the US/UK will be further outreaged by the treatment of Saddam.
Bush and Rumsfeld will use the form of words that will allow them to take whatever actions they like. They will interpret the GC (and any other international treaties) to suit themselves. They will still expect their enemies to respect the GC.
Hypocrites!