2007-02-28 17:00:54 · 15 answers · asked by Breffo 1 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
absolutely. I think our absolutely resolute stance on allowing torture should get us in serious trouble. None of these word games like aggressive interrogation or impolite asking or whatever the current spin doctoring words are!! I would also love to see all the CIA flights that went thru Europe get prosecuted for international crimes snatching people from their families just because someone who was being tortured said their names. That stuff is atrocious and the fact that the rest of the world does nothing is basically saying its ok. I would love to see every CIA operative that tortured anyone in a trial. Even though we pulled out of the International court they could for example just come and snatch a few of them and see how americans feel about the whole process. Put some of those guys on Interpols most wanted!! Also put Fox on trial for voter fraud when they sold the election to Bush.
2007-02-28 17:15:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Sadly all on here do not know what the Geneva Convention covers.
Those who are being held in Gitmo are NOT covered under the Geneva Convention but everyone seems to think that they are.
Those who are in uniform and have committed crimes covered by the Geneva Convention are being prosecuted and are not getting away with the crimes.
The problem is that the Geneva Convention states that those who are not in uniform nor with a recognized military army can be shot on the spot or hanged without trial or anything else.
However the United States has NOT do this to any of the terrorist that they capture. If they did then the "outrage" would be even greater than it is now.
Wonder why there is only a slight discomfort when the terrorist behead someone or use children to kill people but the United States holds the terrorist in a camp without them being put on trial everyone is upset?
2007-03-01 03:31:37 · answer #2 · answered by fatboysdaddy 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Only if you are going to apply the same rules in the same manner to everybody.
Can you quote a relevant and 'in force' section of the GC that was violated by the US?
How many people have noticed that nobody can supply actual evidence that the US violated an 'in force' section of the GC? Or even provide a quote from the GC that forbids anything the US has done as a matter of official policy?
2007-03-01 12:56:38 · answer #3 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's not lose sight of the parameters of the Geneva Convention. It is specific to military units of a sovreign nation. Even during WWII, espionage agents were tortured and executed because they did not wear a uniform. Today we face a barbaric enemy with no ties to any single nation. Their acts are criminal and violate all of humanity. To prevent the further deaths of women, children and our soldiers, it becomes imperative to react in full measure to eradicate the problem. To do less is to sign our own death warrant.
2007-03-01 01:25:16 · answer #4 · answered by goaltender 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There may be some debate as to the sanctions you suggest should be placed on the U.S. But wouldn't it be great if sanctions were placed? We wouldn't have to send out anything and we wouldn't have to receive anything. All products would be from here, good ol' U.S. of A. Of course that wouldn't happen because of the economic chaos that non-trade with the U.S. will cause to the global economy.
2007-03-01 01:14:46 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
The only sanction that would work would an Oil sanction, that would give them a shock and bring them into the real energy world.
2007-03-01 02:27:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This question reminded me of when Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was in our Country talking to reporters along with Bush in Sept. 23, 2006. One of the questions were from Musharraf stating that the U.S.A. bullied Pakistan. Guilt was all over Bushes face, then he gave a shrug of his shoulders and motioned with his hands said, Just don't know if we bullied Pakistan, Musharraf turned his head very quickly and looked Bush in the eyes as if to say, your lying and you know it. Yes if we violated the Geneva Convention then what is good for the goose is also good for the gander!
2007-03-01 01:35:47 · answer #7 · answered by NJ 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
If we want to play by the rules - YES. And Bush and his cronies should be charged as war criminals. This whole thing about "preemptive strikes" alone leave open the possibility to justify any war. It's just plain wrong. We are behaving in such an Un-American manner that we've lost respect and legitimacy in the eyes of the whole world.
2007-03-01 01:14:04 · answer #8 · answered by The Hero Inside 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
of course, but it's one for them and another rule for the rest of the world. If Guantanamo bay was being run by ANY other country, the UN would have imposed sanctions and the US would be bombing them..I'm actually ashamed of my government for saying nothing and allowing it to happen.
2007-03-01 01:10:49 · answer #9 · answered by bee bee 6 · 5⤊ 3⤋
The global economy rests on America. Anything we do to damage their economy will damage ours and the rest of the worlds.
Sanctions are not a practical option.
2007-03-01 01:11:42 · answer #10 · answered by Fantom Doughnut Eater 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋