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Thread #110480 Message #2322907
Posted By: GUEST,Chief Chaos
22-Apr-08 - 04:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Torture!!!!
Subject: RE: BS: Torture!!!!
The Geneva Convention does not apply to terrorists or anyone other than signatory nation states!
I don't think the use of torure or terrorism by any side is acceptable and I find our use of it to be repugnant.
Segmenting the information out is a classification called "Compartmentalizing".
It will be years, if ever at all, that we find out what information was gathered by torture and what by illegally tapping phones/the internet/whatever. Doesn't matter how it was collected, it was done illegally.
The hope of the Geneva Convention is that by treating combatants (notice the term "combatants", this administration decided to label everyone in the Afghani (Taliban) army and the Iraqi army as non-combatants)in a certain way, it will guarantee your "combatants of the same treatment.
As in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam it doesn't always work that way (but there's no telling if we were actually following the rules there either.