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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.
Then again, I may be wrong.
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I think your characterization is more literally correct than than Ty's. However, getting from there to "since they aren't protected, but can do to them exactly all the things that the Convention was designed to prevent" takes the sort of parsing interpretation that has created the tax shelter industry and was relied on by Enron and Tyco in looking interpreting the tax and securities laws, and look at the fucking mess that created.
Of course, Enron and Tyco affected taxpayers' money and the detainees at Gitmo are just a bunch of foreign terrorists, right? If Ed Meese were posting he'd remind us that if they wren't guilty, they wouldn't be detained.
