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Re: Geneva Convention on POW treatment is just another inconvenience to the Iraqi Regime?
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Mon, 24 Mar 2003 01:01:32 GMT
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Gadzooks!  That's just intolerable.  I guess we should just go over there
and teach them a lesson.  O wait...

Risks of War: death, maiming, mutilation, maltreatment, rape...doesn't much
matter which side you are on from what I have understood of it. War is
madness.  War is hell.  And that's why it's always supposed to be the last
resort.

I see little point in prosecuting a war that is not needed at this time.  I
see little point in the comments that Shrub has made that will likely
instigate a new arms race or inspire renewed vigor for those still playing
catch-up for the last one.

Red Rover, Red Rover, bring our boys back over.

-- Hop-Frog



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  Geneva Convention on POW treatment is just another inconvenience to the Iraqi Regime?
 
From: (URL) this: Iraq's Defence Minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmed, said Iraq would "not harm the captured prisoners of war". "It will treat them in accordance with the Geneva Convention on prisoners of war." with this: An ICRC spokeswoman said it was (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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