 | | How Will We Ever Wash the Stink of GWB Jr. Off?! —Richard Marchetti
| | | | "Children held at Guantanamo Bay" (URL) younger than 16 are being held as "enemy combatants" in the American detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, the US military admitted yesterday, a practice human rights groups condemned as repugnant and illegal. (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: How Will We Ever Wash the Stink of GWB Jr. Off?! —Scott Arthur
| | | | | | (...) ...they'll be 18 soon enough. On a related note: As I understand it, the USA is one of only a handful of countries to execute juvenile offenders in the last decade. The others are: Congo, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Nigeria and Yemen. And (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: How Will We Ever Wash the Stink of GWB Jr. Off?! —Bruce Schlickbernd
| | | | | | (...) Dang...I can't! Gosh, that was a painless debate. :-) -->Bruce<-- It's that circumvention of all laws that gets me: no, they aren't combatants, so they don't fall under the Geneva conventions, and yet they are held under military law so they (...) (22 years ago, 24-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: How Will We Ever Wash the Stink of GWB Jr. Off?! —Leonard Hoffman
| | | | | first, thank you for posting this. i hadn't known this. second, god this is depressing! my government, whom i'm too afraid of to really resist, is purposely and actively subverting international and domestic law - regardless of the reason behind the (...) (22 years ago, 25-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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