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Originally posted by bilmore
I Bin Gone, but has anyone thrashed this over yet?
"To qualify as prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention, detainees must satisfy all four of the following criteria (the quotations here come from the Convention itself):
***The detainees in question must have been “commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates”
***They must have worn “a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance”
***They must have carried their arms “openly”
***And they must have conducted their operations “in accordance with the laws and customs of war”
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No. But given that Bush administration officials have been falling all over themselves in the current hearings to proclaim that we had decided that Iraqi detainees
should have been treated in accordance with the Convention, and that the miscreants in Abu Ghraib simply didn't follow those orders, I'm guessing that the Bushies didn't find this observation a compelling one.
Gattigap
