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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bob who wrote (483216)	10/29/2003 11:27:31 AM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769670

Also counter-productive, hypocritical, and harmful to morale.

To: Bob who wrote (483216)	10/29/2003 12:59:00 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: "It boils down to, the Army is considering severely punishing one of it's own for saving the lives of his men. I find that intolerable." No, it boils down to the fact that even in war there are rules of behavior that, once breached, lead to such abuses that the costs outweigh the benefits. If you think that some cowboy colonel firing a pistol beside the head of a suspected guerrilla after having his men rough him up satisfies American ideas of wartime behavior, think again. If you're going to ignore the Geneva conventions then what are you doing bitching about it when the other side does the same thing. I'd bet you weren't saying "good thinking on the Iraqi's part" when we were telling the world that the Iraqis were torturing and threatening our POWs. Now that the situation is reversed you're arguing that the behaviors are fine. You can't have it both ways; either we accept and adhere to the rules of the Geneva Convention, and expect others to as well, or we don't. Like the Bush administration, it seems you have a double standard; we use the rules when they benefit us and ignore them when they don't. When this type of action is thrown in the face of the military, they have no choice but to act. That's not "intolerable." What would be intolerable would be to fail to act and thus send a message to our soldiers and the rest of the world that "anything goes."