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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
This idea that the Geneva Conventions were intended to create a class of people ("enemy combatants") who would be unprotected is historically flimsy. And other things that our military has done to evade the Geneva Conventions and other protections -- e.g., a signed Presidential letter to give military personnel a necessity defense to any prosecution -- are flimsier still.
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I'm not a Geneva Convention scholar, and in fact have never read it, but I don't think it creates the enemy combatant classification. I think it defines a class of people who are entitled to the protections, but the Gitmo prisoners fall outside that definition. So I don't think you have your facts straight.
Then again, I may be wrong.
