[gotribe]

Warner and fellow Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina have argued that changing the standard would open the door for other countries to interpret the rules on prisoner treatment in ways that could endanger captured Americans.

Please Messrs. Warner, McCain, and Graham, please tell me when American prisoners of war were last treated humanely by a nation that signed the Geneva Conventions. Germany? Japan? Korea? Vietnam? Where are these enlightened nations that treat our own so well?

[Fiddlstix]

Please Messrs. Warner, McCain, and Graham, please tell me when American prisoners of war were last treated humanely by a nation that signed the Geneva Conventions. Germany? Japan? Korea? Vietnam? Where are these enlightened nations that treat our own so well?

Well Said!

[wiley]

I add (to the Senators):

Please explain why you want to legitimize the actions of terrorists by placing them under the protection of the Geneva Convention?

[Yardstick]

Germany? Japan? Korea? Vietnam?

And these were states, who at least had a sense of shame, to some degree, about using torture. As far as I know, most of them tried to keep their torturing hidden from the eyes of the international community.

But not the Islamic terrorists. They publish their torturings on the internet for all to see.

The notion that these people would repay us in kind for our generous treatment of their prisoners is beyond naive. The obvious reality is that they are even less likely to do so than those who have tortured our soldiers in the past.