[muawiyah]

Part of the problem with the pictures is they violate Geneva Convention provisions.

This judge, in effect, is telling the government to simply ignore these international rules we've agreed to.

[concerned about politics]

Part of the problem with the pictures is they violate Geneva Convention provisions.

Yep. It seems the anti-American ACLU and this liberal judge want as much American bloodshed as they can get.
If it isn't deadly - it isn't liberal enough.

[vaudine]

This is designed exclusively to whip up international outcry and
turn Americans against GWB and the war. The public knows there were instances of abuse, but with these pics will come the insinuation that the abuse was both widespread and common.

We are at war. The media and the ACLU do not have a need to know every detail and be present for every little thing. This is part and parcel of Amnesty Int. trying to bring charges against GWB, Rumsfeld and who knows who else.

vaudine

[Chgogal]

Really! What are the military trials for then?

[Bogey78O]

Seriously.

Though those held at Abu Ghraib weren't POW's their detainment could possibly cause them to fall under the Geneva conventions unlike regular terrorists.

In a normal abuse case if someone took pictures of the torture they commited then the pictures are kept from public. But in this case we have to release photos of the victims... and the only reason why is to throw disrepute on the US.

[cookcounty]

" Part of the problem with the [ release of these ] pictures is [ the release ] violates Geneva Convention provisions. "

So now we have Judge Hellerstein ruling that the US is NOT subject to the Geneva Conventions!

If there weren't lives at stake, these judges would hilarious. Hilarious Hellerstein, Professional Pretzel Maker.

[commonerX]

Why do we have to obey international law? We set international law.

[Goodgirlinred]

Ok, it is time for the President to step in and block this. It is not in the best interests of the safety of our troops nor in the best interests of anyone's safety in the world at war with terrorism to put these pictures out there. Period. The right to see the pictures, for anyone stupid enough to want to look at them, pales in comparison to what would happen if the extremists saw them.

It is time for the ACLU to decide whether they are Americans or not. If not, sent them to Iraq and let them work with the terrorists to try to make them hand over documents for those who have the "right to know."

[swampfx]

Part of the problem with the pictures is they violate Geneva Convention provisions.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/26/noniraqi.prisoners/

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Non-Iraqi prisoners captured by U.S. forces on the Iraq battlefield are not entitled to the protections afforded by the Geneva Conventions, according to a recent legal opinion from the Justice Department.