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

To: Machaon who wrote (567438)	4/21/2004 3:47:42 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It is in all our best interest to comply to the Geneva Convention of course. Unless you wish to lower yourself to the kind of people who don't follow the Geneva convention. I'll repeat this for you. Just the first of the following reasons is enough for me. Just as is for any rational commander who wants information from his enemies. There are three solid reasons for treating prisoners well: 1) Decent treatment ENCOURAGES our enemies to surrender or switch allegiances. 2) Decent treatment ENCOURAGES decent treatment of our soldiers, although it doesn't guarantee it. 3) Decent treatment is what we do to not lower ourselves to their level. We gave prisoners the protection of the Geneva Convention in WWII because we were better than them. Now YOU want us to be like them. I think that's UnAmerican.