when dealing with prisoners in the current conflict. ie holding people for 5 plus years without trial, they are on record as torturing , abusing and dening basic human rights to these people who have never been charged never mind been found guilty.
Americans run like rabbits and say that since the taliban, al Quiada ( who were once on the US payrole and will probably be again)etc have never declared "war" so that gives them the excuse to commit human atrocities against those held without trial in Gitmo yet demand that a country they never declared war on are guilty of war crimes against theie POWs IE the North Vietnamese
Seemes that the American Military and federal courts are no better than the North Vietnamese government when it comes to POWS they are about the same
I have heard the usual trailer park welfare reipient rhetoric on this , any intelligent responses would be a nice change.
And yes I have served in the military!
2007-02-24 17:53:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Other - News & Events
CJ am I not a seppo and I do rememeber the vietnam war very clearly ... so buddy your wrong on all counts..LMFAO
2007-02-24 19:14:45 · update #1
Moon shot ...what part of America is the worlds largest hypocrite didnt you comprehend?
2007-02-24 19:16:38 · update #2
Well they kind a acknowledged doing 'illegal' things. Although they claim it is legal under 'war time'. Obivously they don't openly tell about rendition, torture techniques, detention w/o charge...etc, but they (Bush admin, Pentagon..etc) openly argued for expansion of presidential war powers. They have been arguing that it is time of war and this grants them to do whatever they do. Not exactly 'war never declared' excuse. They're not making excuse. They're making arguments for these sweep war powers and White House lawyers basically drafted presidential powers with no limit. Currently the lawyers basically claim that the president can do whatever he sees neccesarly to fight so called war on terror.
It has been this irrational fear that largely driven detention of people without charges. Everyones too scared that if they release one guy and the guy go out to bomb something then they may be held responsible for releasing that guy. So they're bascially saying 'we don't know anything about this guy, but I don't want to get it trouble if this guy really is terrorist.' And that's bad way to keep someone in prison for several years. That doesn't surprise me considering theres barely anybody who speaks Arabic and farmilar with Arab culture in our intelligence agency who can infiltrate, savatoge terror networks. They have terrible intel, poor capabilities out in real world. We keep alienating our best allies(moderate Muslims) with profiling and unfair detentions.
2007-02-24 19:39:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How is being given "culturally correct" meals, provided recreation areas, given their religious materials, free health care, etc... "torture"? That's more than most poor Americans get! I have to PAY for my health care, and I was not a combatant against this country!
You probably are not old enough to know what went on in Vietnam, nevertheless the Hanoi Hilton, so how could you possibly compare that to Guantanamo Bay? And if you were not stationed in Gitmo, how would YOU know what goes on? Because some anti-war people want to gain attention by making accusations against how we treat prisoners?
Oh, and by the way, those detained at Gitmo are NOT POW's. To be a POW, one must be a "uniformed" combatant from a country who recognizes the Geneva Convention. These people detained are insurgents as well as international terrorists. Not uniformed military combatants. If you were military, as you claim you were, then you would know that. Why don't you?
And if you served in the US military and have this opinion of your country, then you are a traitor! I doubt seriously that you were a combat veteran, you definitely wouldn't have this attitude if you were. I think you were a REMF'er, if you were indeed in the military at all.
My advice to you.........support your country, or get the hell out!
2007-02-24 18:10:45 · answer #2 · answered by C J 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Youre absolutely correct with that north vietnamese comment.
This war has broken so many laws its pathetic,
Everythign from the way we got into the war, to the manner in which we funded the war (civilian contracts), to how we allow such gross negligence on all sides with the lack of accountability for the contractors allowing civilian contractors to be killed, to now punish those contractors responsible for the torturing.
If you are a civilian contractor and you are caught violating human rights of iraqi's, all tey do is send you home, where you can turn around and sign up with a new contractor and be back in iraq within the same month.
There is no accountability no manage-ability. this who war is a sham from the very beginning, but its the republicans who are impeding forward progres.
Come on, when V.P. Chenney use to work as top dog at Haliburton, and whos getting a huge chunk of the billions of U.S. dollars for Iraq, and whos not being held accountable for the lack of services to our troops?
Come on,..its big business corruption, plain and simple.
The peanut gallery has spoken on behalf of all the twits - thanks moon for your input. No other morons need to lend moronic comment...Moon spoke for all of you
2007-02-24 18:05:32 · answer #3 · answered by writersbIock2006 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Why is everyone so amazed that the the US government is evil & currupt? Always was, always will be.
2007-02-24 19:18:34 · answer #4 · answered by nathan c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe, before you joined the military, you should have learned how to spell, as well as write coherent sentences!
2007-02-24 18:03:18 · answer #5 · answered by tranquility_base3@yahoo.com 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋