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surrealAmerican

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16. There are agreed upon standards for the treatment of war prisoners.

Reply to xtraxritical (Reply #14)

Wed Apr 10, 2013, 07:52 AM

Apr 2013

Those standards do not include execution. Nor do they allow torture.

You are the one who suggested that innocence didn't matter. Information gained through torture is known to be unreliable - and that's exactly the sort of "evidence" that military intelligence has based their findings on about these prisoners. We don't know if they're guilty or not, and we probably never will.

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US now naming force-fed Guantanamo prisoners [View all] Paul E Ester Apr 2013 OP

As noted on an ACLU blog: AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2013 #1

Let those people go. Close the prison. nt ladjf Apr 2013 #2

HOW APPALLING THAT OBAMA AND HIS THUGS... Comrade_McKenzie Apr 2013 #3

More here at DU: "Is Obama condoning torture by allowing force-feeding at Gitmo?" AnotherMcIntosh Apr 2013 #4

K&R Solly Mack Apr 2013 #5

So give them what they want, death. xtraxritical Apr 2013 #6

What is wrong with you. Half of the are innocent people sold for the bounty the US was paying for pam4water Apr 2013 #8

Says you, so what. All of the 911 victims were innocent. xtraxritical Apr 2013 #10

Are you seriously suggesting that ... surrealAmerican Apr 2013 #11

These guys are not wanted back by their country's of origin and no one else xtraxritical Apr 2013 #14

There are agreed upon standards for the treatment of war prisoners. surrealAmerican Apr 2013 #16

If we EVER get to the place of accepting that as justifiction . . . markpkessinger Apr 2013 #12

Apparently you have no moral core. Here put this in the hole were you core should be. "Do unto pam4water Apr 2013 #17

It would be more libodem Apr 2013 #13

Sickening! sikofit3 Apr 2013 #7

"might violate provisions of the Geneva Conventions" WTF! I know Obama stopped the waterboarding.... Sunlei Apr 2013 #9

I thought that Guantanamo was supposed to be closed a while back? OhioChick Apr 2013 #15

Try this link then cstanleytech Apr 2013 #18

Thanks for the info w/link n/t OhioChick Apr 2013 #19

You are most welcome. Hopefully others will also read and learn from it as well though cstanleytech Apr 2013 #20

Headlines like that make me so proud to be an American. Comrade Grumpy Apr 2013 #21