Red Cross condemned the prolonged detention

verybdog · Oct 10, 2003

This detention thing has really no precedent regarding international law. How can the US justify treating these people like that? I am glad the Red Cross brought the issue up.

Dante · Oct 11, 2003

Are they being physically mistreated?

I'd rather have them rotting in Gitmo than blowing themselves up and killing us.

DoyleG · Oct 11, 2003

Originally posted by Dante
Are they being physically mistreated?

I'd rather have them rotting in Gitmo than blowing themselves up and killing us.
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No doubt they are getting treated better than even those in civilian prisons.

verybdog · Oct 11, 2003

To quote Kenneth Anderson, a law professor at American University:

A case in point is the continuing argument over whether the detainees at Guantanamo are indeed bona fide P.O.W.'s being mistreated under the Third Geneva Convention, as Amnesty International argues; or whether the Taliban among them are P.O.W.'s but some members of Al Qaeda are not, as Human Rights Watch says; or whether none of them are P.O.W.'s at all, as the Bush administration insists.
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DoyleG · Oct 11, 2003

Maybe those people who complain about how the interned are being treated should shut their traps. They should be happy that they didn't follow the Geneva Convention by the book.

Otherwise, most of those at X-Ray would be dead before they even reached it.