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Does the Holocaust Rule Apply
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Originally posted by sgtclub
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.
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That may be. I do the exceptions to the Geneva Convention appear to be swallowing the rules, and that we are all the worse off for it. We managed to win World War II without abandoning the idea of treating captured combatants according to civilized standards. Our treatment of various people at Abu Ghraib, Gitmo and elsewhere is counterproductive in the long run.
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