LOL....Let another country hold one of our soldiers with no charges forever and see what we do!

[KansasVoter]

I guarantee this country would freak out.

And I am sure people here will say "Well, that is different, our guys would not deserve it but their guys do!".

Remember, to the enemy, we look as evil as the terrorists do to us.

We always get away with stuff we would not put up with from other countries.

[LynnTheDem]

1. Imagine a 8-yr old American boy being raped by guards while being held in jail

on no charges whatsoever.

Imagine a US soldier being tortured by say the Chinese via waterboarding...

Oh yeah, we'd sure hear the screeching of rage then.

[PassingFair]

2. Can't compare the two...we have "soldiers" and they are "Muslins"...

Ya see the difference?

:sarcasm:

[Clio the Leo]

3. Was our guy committing a war crime?

Or even accused of committing a war crime or otherwise in violation of the Geneva Convention?

I'm afraid you're oversimplifying things Rachel ..... I mean Kansas. ;)

[KansasVoter]

6. OK, so the troops who broke laws, you think we would have been ok with.....

them holding them forever and not charging them??

[Clio the Leo]

7. They were US citizens, subject to US laws ........ try again. ;-) NT

[ima_sinnic]

16. we are holding citizens of other countries who are subject to their country's laws

we have had Australians and Brits, to name a few from what I guess some would deem "civilized" (i.e., "white" "Christian") countries. That has not stopped anything, and will not stop people from being detained without charges.

[rug]

9. Dozens are being held by the U.S. military without even an accusation.

[EFerrari]

11. A war crime like being a baker? Or a photographer? Or a teenager?

Was our soldier sold to their CIC? It could happen.

I'm afraid you don't know how many totally innocent people we are holding.

[leftofthedial]

13. the Gitmo detainees are not accused of committing war crimes either.

In fact, irony of ironies, it is a war crime to detain them at Gitmo and torture them.

WE, not they, are accused of war crimes. The truth is even simpler than you think.

[ima_sinnic]

17. under "preventive detention," it won't matter. They won't be charged with ANYthing

let alone war crimes.

By the way, "war crimes" are apparently okay now, as is violating the Geneva Conventions.

[DireStrike]

25. If crimes are committed we can try and convict or release.

The analogous situation would be if they held our men for being members of an "evil organization" like the USA.

[Thothmes]

4. Which country is Al Quida

represetative of? How many Pakistani soldiers do we have in captivity. How many Saudi soldiers do we have captivity. How many Syrian soldiers do we have in captivity. The answer is none. The people we have in captivity do not represent a country.

[lunatica]

8. Iraq is a country. It's where the torture is known to have happended

Abu Grahib? Do you recall that? It's a country last I heard. And none of the tortured seem to have been Al Qaeda.

[Thothmes]

14. How many of the prisoners held at Abu Grahib

were prisoners of war from the Iraqi Army?

[lunatica]

20. The iraqi army was disbanded by the US. They were never an issue

[Thothmes]

23. So the answer is none. If there were no prisoners of war

at Abu Grhabe, the Geneva Convention does not apply.

[StrongBad]

5. Did our soldier/citizen declare intention to harm their country on the record?

If so, I wouldn't blame them. He's a POW.

So long he is not being tortured this is within the accepted rules of war.

[stevietheman]

10. Essentially calling al Qaeda members "soldiers" is an extreme stretch. n/t

n/t

[leftofthedial]

12. we might overlook it

if the soldiers had brown skin and a non-protestant-Christian religion.

[L. Coyote]

15. Why a soldier, why not anyone at random, without determining their guilt of anything

except being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Like for example, a traveler in the way of an occupying army.

Like being a Native American in the way of Manifest Destiny!!
Or like being a person of color in the way of a racist!
OPr like being a Muslim in the way of George Bush's god!

[Are_grits_groceries]

18. This country already flipped

because a dead soldier was abused. People went apeshit when the clip of that dead soldier was shown being dragged through the streets in Somalia. How do they expect other people to react when they see awful pictures of their countrymen being abused?

[lunatica]

21. He (there were more than one) was not a soldier

He was a mercenary working for Blackwater and not a member of our military.

[ima_sinnic]

19. "soldiers"? what about tourists or aid workers who happen to be trapped in an occupation?

the invaders might consider them "dangerous" because they're Americans and therefore "sympathetic" to the "wrong side."
They could be anybody. They could be Doctors without Borders or working for CARE or OXFAM or Heifer Intl, but as long as that country's leader deems them "a possible threat," they could be locked up and the key thrown away.

[ClarkUSA]

22. American soldiers have been decapitated and dismembered by al-Qaeda in Iraq. (links -->)

Link 1: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/20/AR2006062000242.html
Link 2: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/beheading_desecration_video_of_dead_us_soldiers_released_on_internet_by_al_qaeda_videoimages/
Link 3: http://de.geocities.com/infotaxi/iraq-decapitation/iraq-beheaded-breaking-news.html

I wonder what other countries would do if we beheaded their captive fighters after dismembering them and dragging their bodies behind our jeeps and shot video of our soldiers waving the foreign fighters' heads around?

[Vinca]

24. Well, there are the 2 women being held by the North Koreans.

Apparently Little Kim can keep them as long as he wants.