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To: presidio9
#1 - First American president to ignore the Geneva Convention on warfare (by refusing to allow inspectors access to U.S.-held prisoners of war).

I think you mean captured, detained armed combatants - who don't have that right under the Geneva Convention. But it's just semantics, right?

37 posted on 11/26/2003 12:36:23 PM PST by Aeronaut (In my humble opinion, the new expression for backing down from a fight should be called 'frenching')
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To: Aeronaut
What government's military service were these men members of?
46 posted on 11/26/2003 12:41:13 PM PST by dwd1 (M. h. D. (Master of Hate and Discontent))
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