my friends two daughters were in the guard

as mp`s. they told her that during training they went over and over the rules of prisoner treatment and the geneva conventions. so what the hell happened to the armies training?? doesn`t the army train mp`s on prisoner treatment and the geneva conventions? this goes all the way to rummies and bush`s desk but the buck never stops there-it`s always someone else. no matter what defense these scum get-the point of the ww2 trials were that you can refuse. but these scum enjoyed what they did and never refused. germany 1930-1945, is this what we have become, a nation that looks away to avoid the fact that george bush is responsible for the conduct of his and our troops ?

My husband has said this too. They have to learn them, it isn't to know how to treat others, it's to know your rights if you're ever captured. It's been driving him nuts when they keep saying our troops didn't know the Geneva Convention.

At the same time, the troops weren't trained how to manage prisoners, which is a difficult task. And they surely weren't trained how to do any of these "softening up" techniques that they were being ordered to manage either. Or to know what to do when they first saw abuses occuring, or what to do after they reported it and nothing changed. Colossal mess, going all the way to Bush, as far as I can see. They decided not to give terrorists Geneva Convention rights, and they decided to "Gitmo-ize" Abu Grhaib, and they decided to ignore the ICRC reports; so they bare the resonsiblity.

as a nurse...and every one of those years the Geneva Convention was drilled into us. The reason those soldiers acted the way they did was they felt (because of Rummy's disdain for the Geneva Convention) they had tacit approval for their behavior.
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