To: Friend_from_the_Frozen_North; siunevada; null and void
Of course, doesn't the Geneva Convention also prohibit cutting off the heads of prisoners, as well as using film of prisoners being tortured and murdered for propaganda purposes?
To: Flatus I. Maximus
Does the Geneva Convention apply to out of uniform combatants?
70 posted on
02/02/2007 1:01:03 PM PST by
TYVets
(God so loved the world he didn't send a committee)
To: Flatus I. Maximus
Of course, doesn't the Geneva Convention also prohibit cutting off the heads of prisoners, as well as using film of prisoners being tortured and murdered for propaganda purposes?Yeah, but I think the Koran specifically mentions that they are okay. And you get bonus virgins in paradise.
I don't think the psycho murderers that pass themselves off as jihadis will be sitting down to sign the Geneva Convention anytime soon.
95 posted on
02/02/2007 1:15:07 PM PST by
siunevada
(If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
To: Flatus I. Maximus
It also says that if your opponent won't follow the rules, you don't need to either.
135 posted on
02/02/2007 1:38:46 PM PST by
ctdonath2
(The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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