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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: E. T. who wrote (222601)	1/27/2002 3:19:02 PM
From: DavesM	Read Replies (1) of 769670

ET, According to what I have read, the State Department (or Secretary Powell) does not urge that the detainees be given the legal status of POW. "The issue is not whether these people are prisoners of war, they are not. They're not going to get musical instruments or monthly paychecks or any of that. Nothing will change in their treatment." A senior State Department Official's response regarding the State Department's views. The Secretary of State's expressed concern was that the United States not give the IMPRESSION or APPEARANCE of ignoring the Geneva Convention. - from a L.A. Times article by Drogin and Hook. ET, the entire reason that these people are being detained, is because the United States wants to get more information regarding Al Qaeda, and future planned attacks against the United States and Americans. I have little sympathy to those who would wish to limit that ablility. I'd also like to point out, in the past 50 years the vast majority of captured American Service men and women, were NOT treated in accordance to the Geneva Convention.

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