view it through different eyes
“If you were shown a video of a United States marine or an American citizen in the control of a foreign power, in a cellblock, naked, with a bag over their head, squatting with their arms uplifted for 45 minutes, would you describe that as a good interrogation technique or a violation of the Geneva Convention?”
Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, questioning Marine General Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. General Pace replied, “I would describe it as a violation, sir.”
Source: The New York Times
Sojourners quotes this in their latest email.
May 20th, 2004 at 2:10 pm
the reason why the West agrees to the Geneva convention is not because of prisoners they capture but of what will happen to their soldiers which are captured.
This totally eluded the US soldiers involved in these disgraceful acts.
what will happen to any US soldiers captured in Iraq now?
May 21st, 2004 at 9:44 am
and yet america has no issue with demanding people from other countries face up to the international criminal court.
May 22nd, 2004 at 9:22 am
Ah but the American soldiers are people just like us. The Iraqi prisoners are not people they are “the enemy”. That makes all the difference.