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xoxoxoBruce · 07-04-2008, 02:09 PM

That's true, and the reason POWs treatment was addressed by the Geneva Convention. The wrinkle is Bush saying these are not POWs but a new class, called "illegal combatants". Being non-POWs, that makes this new class civilian criminals and subject to the laws of the "host"

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07-04-2008, 02:09 PM	#199
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	That's true, and the reason POWs treatment was addressed by the Geneva Convention. The wrinkle is Bush saying these are not POWs but a new class, called "illegal combatants". Being non-POWs, that makes this new class civilian criminals and subject to the laws of the "host" nation. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.