Why does Bush pay strict adherence to the Geneva convention in Iraq & yet ignore it at Gitmo?

Question

If Bush ignored the Geneva Convention (like he does at Gitmo) & let US troops in Iraq fight like they were trained to fight, the war in Iraq would be over in 6 months or less.

Now libs before you start crying foul play just think a little first. Would some Iraqi civilians get killed? Yes. But they are getting killed right now & there is no end in sight. But if US troops were allowed to fight like they were trained the war would be over in 6 months rather than the 6 or 16 or 60 years it might take if US troops are made to fight like they are now.

You want an Iraq war that's over in about 6 months or do you want a Iraq war that could easily go for the next 60 years even if US troops leave in 2008? Some Iraqi civilians would die over that 6 month period. But MILLIONS of Iraqis civilians will die if someone doesn't stop their civil war. So which is it, a few thousand dead Iraqi civilians or Millions of dead Iraqi civilians? It would make Darfur look like a minor skirmish.

Answer 1

And you are surprised by this?
He wants adherence when our soldiers are captured but for everyone else to hell with that. He was the first to talk about the Geneva Conventions when Jessica Lynch and her group were captured, yet as far as he was concerned it was okay to "torture" in Abu Ghraib. Remember the Gonzales memo?
All that did was create more hatred.
Heck, even his "torture" bill (officially known as the Military Commissions Act) that was passed last year which suspends Habeas Corpus violates our own Constitution. Article 1 Section 8 states
"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it."
Where is the invasion? Where is the rebellion? Haven't seen either
The war will continue there whether we stay or leave.This "war" happened because President Dimwit did not take the time to even find out the regions dynamics. All he has done is take the match to the powder keg that is the Middle East.
He could not even tell that there were different factions 3 years after war began. Huh!?! So, somehow you think our men and women shedding their blood refereeing fighting that has been taking place between these factions since 632 A.D. will be solved by us and Bush? No wonder he thinks he is Jesus Christ returned.
He wants to have his cake and eat it too.

Answer 2

Do you have reason to believe that our troops were trained to fight in ways NOT in accordance with the Geneva Conventions? That's too bad, because the US Constitution gives that treaty the force of US law, and we citizens should be pretty concerned if we are in fact training our soldiers to violate the US constitution.

And all of this besides the fact that we are patently NOT adhering to the terms of the Geneva Conventions in our treatment of Iraqi detainees (remember Abu Ghraib? That wasn't the only place that kind of shiite went down) and in the fact of our occupation of Iraq in the first place.

If waging an unprovoked war of aggresion isn't prohibited by the Geneva Conventions, it is absolutely prohibited by the UN Charter.

Answer 3

The people in Cuba are not associated with any country, that means that they are enemy combatants. Which is not covered under the Geneva Convention.

The Geneva Convention covers how country's should treat and respect other countries prisoners. If they do not have a country for which they were fighting for, they are not covered. However they are covered under the UN humanitarian rights, which have been followed.

Answer 4

faith and non secular ideologies would desire to stay thoroughly out of government or the rest that contributes to political and/or public policies. certainly, Velvet cobweb, that's area of the venture. Jesus would very nicely have been. In Jesus' own words he spoke his help of the old testomony's policies, in all their barbaric immorality. people who do not understand this the two have not certainly examine the bible or are in selective denial.