this is one question i have been wanting to ask for a while?

Question

why do people get so mad and want to follow the rules and laws when soldiers in iraq kill someone or beat someone. But they dont realize that these people dont give a f*** about us they kill, torture and decapitate our people our soldiers why shoul we feel compassion for them. I mean look at all the people they have in jails our taxes feed them while all they think about is what they can do to the next soldier they capture.

I bet you would not feel the same if you were the family of a soldier that was tortured and decapitaded and god knows what else. you should be thankful all these man and women out there are defendig freedom.

someone said here they will get what they deserve once they are in jail. How long are we going to be paying taxes before any of these people get a court date and even then they will probably give them life. We will be paying taxes for them to live comfortably in some jail. I guess that is what everyone in the US wants.

geneva codes. if no one else respects them why shoul we. I mean evertything is fair in love and war isn't it.

Answer 1

People get upset because we expect so much more from our own people. We are the liberators, the good guys. We should not be lowering ourselves to the standards of our enemies.

Our boys and girls are doing one HELLUVA job in Afganistan and Iraq, but they are only human. Mistakes can/will be/have been made.

Also, war brings out the worst and best in people. Some folks make mistakes, other revel in the bloodshed.

Answer 2

Because we are not like the other country. We are compassionate and try to live that way. I am in agreement however about these people not needing compassion since they show us known. However two wrongs don't make a right. But if you seriously believe these people do not get what they deserve once in jail, you should do a reality check. The get whats coming to them, trust me on that.

Answer 3

This has been going on since the days of old. Get a hold of a Bible (if you don't have one already). Starting in Genesis the 12th chapter you start reading about Abram (God later change his name to Abraham). God promised him a son, (Isaac) to have the promised land and his birthright. He also promised him he'd be the the Father of many nations. Well years past and no children came and Sari his wife got to thinking that maybe she could give her handmaiden (Hagar) to Abram and she could bare him a son through her. Ishmel was born and later, he and his mother were cast out of the village. Since then Ishmel being the decendants of the Gentile nation has been seeking out that birthright and the land (Israel) they think they deserve, because he was the first-born son of Abram. But God promised the birthright to Abraham and Sarah's son Isaac and his decendants the Jewish nation. These people Ishmel's decendants are forever cursed because of this. Read Genesis 16:11-16. Especially verse 12 will explain more of what we are seeing today. Guess what? Unless you are of Jewish decent then we are Ishmels brothers (Gentile nation) that this verse is talking about. Hope this helps you.

Answer 4

Because we try to be a compassionate country and show others how to act humanly. As far as the troops and military are concerned, your right. They should not be judged for killing someone in the line of there duty. 99% of the time the person killed was someone that would have loved to drag a soldier down main street Baghdad behind his car. I agree with you on this one. If your going to ask a soldier to perform a mission don't throw him or her to the dogs after they have done it.

Answer 5

Because it's part of international law. I know it doens't make much sense but we are supposed to treat the people we capture with the same rights we would if it were someone in our country. You do not want to arrest or kill the wrong person. It also morality. Just because someone else does it doesn't mean you have to do it to.

Answer 6

Come on, why do you think ALL Arabs are terrorists? I could say all Americans are Charles Mansons and all Germans are Hitlers. You mustn’t judge anybody just becaouse you think they MAY do something. You can only arrest them if the y did commit the crime. And even if they did, they still may change. Do you know how many criminals became later saints?

Answer 7

Because you shouldn't be in their country, stealing oil.

and you often get, and torture the wrong people.

I'm sure the Democrats would continue America's imperialistic foreign policy. It doesn't matter who you vote for, it's the system that needs changing.

Answer 8

it is only the dummycrats trying to get back in power .they will do and say anything to make this country look bad when they are not in control

Answer 9

The Geneva Convention Laws are the reason, and here are some of the codes.

Part I. General Provisions
This sets out the overall parameters for GCIV:

Which parties are bound by it
Article 3 covers internal armed conflict (not of an international character) and it provides similar protections to the population as those described in the rest of this document for a Protected person. That Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including POWs; shall in all circumstances be treated humanely.
Article 4 defines who is a Protected person Persons protected by the Convention are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals. But it explicitly excludes Nationals of a State which is not bound by the Convention and the citizens of a neutral state or an allied state.
A number of articles specify how Protecting Powers, ICRC and other humanitarian organizations may aid Protected persons.
Protected person is the most important definition in this section because many of the articles in the rest of GCIV only apply to Protected persons.

Article 5 is currently one of the most controversial articles of GCIV, because it forms, (along with Article 5 of the GCIII and parts of GCIV Article 4,) the Administration of the USA's interpretation of unlawful combatants.

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Part II. General Protection of Populations Against Certain Consequences of War
Article 13. The provisions of Part II cover the whole of the populations of the countries in conflict, without any adverse distinction based, in particular, on race, nationality, religion or political opinion, and are intended to alleviate the sufferings caused by war.

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Part III. Status and Treatment of Protected Persons
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Section I. Provisions common to the territories of the parties to the conflict and to occupied territories
Article 32. A protected person/s shall not have anything done to them of such a character as to cause physical suffering or extermination ... the physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands. This prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishments, mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the medical treatment.

While popular debate remains on what constitutes a legal definition of torture (see discussion on the Torture page), the ban on corporal punishment simplifies the matter; even the most mundane physical abuse is thereby forbidden by Article 32, as a precaution against alternate definitions of torture. (See Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse.)

The section on scientific experiments was considered necessary because of such actions carried out by German and Japanese "doctors" during World War II, the most infamous of whom was Josef Mengele.

Article 33. No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.
Pillage is prohibited.
Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited.

Under the 1949 Geneva Conventions collective punishments are a war crime. Article 33 states: "No protected person may be punished for an offense he or she has not personally committed," and "collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited."

By collective punishment, the drafters of the Geneva Conventions had in mind the reprisal killings of World Wars I and II. In the First World War, Germans executed Belgian villagers in mass retribution for resistance activity. In World War II, Nazis carried out a form of collective punishment to suppress resistance. Entire villages or towns or districts were held responsible for any resistance activity that took place there. The conventions, to counter this, reiterated the principle of individual responsibility. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Commentary to the conventions states that parties to a conflict often would resort to "intimidatory measures to terrorize the population" in hopes of preventing hostile acts, but such practices "strike at guilty and innocent alike. They are opposed to all principles based on humanity and justice."

Additional Protocol II of 1977 explicitly forbids collective punishment. But as fewer states have ratified this protocol than GCIV, GCIV Article 33. is the one more commonly quoted.
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References
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See also
First Geneva Convention of 1864 on the treatment of battlefield casualties
Second Geneva Convention of 1906 extending the first convention to war at sea
Third Geneva Convention of 1929 on the treatment of prisoners of war
Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I). Adopted on June 8, 1977 by the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law applicable in Armed Conflicts. It has been rejected by several nations, including the United States, Afghanistan and Iraq