What this says to me is that we would be morally and legally protected should we decide to kill all of those on gitmo. No trial needed.
The Taliban was not a signatory of the conventions, and didn't respect them with our soldiers.
Why are we always expected to not only do the right thing, but exceed the commonly held view of what the right thing is?
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Timothy Heald
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U.S. Department of State
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lyons, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:32 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: 600 at Guanatanamo bay:US not accountable to any court.
If I remember right (and I've been proven wrong about just recalling things
more than once) there was some debate about that one too, apparently one of
them was wearing part of a Weirmacht uniform when captured. Still what
happened was more in the lines of a propaganda effort rather than a real war
crimes court.
larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:24 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: 600 at Guanatanamo bay:US not accountable to any court.
>
>
> Not in plain clothes it doesn't.
>
>
> --
> Timothy Heald
> Web Portfolio Manager
> Diplomatic Security
> U.S. Department of State
> 571.345.2319
>
> The opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect those
> of the U.S. Department of State or any affiliated
> organization(s). Nor have these opinions been approved or
> sanctioned by these organizations. This e-mail is
> unclassified based on the definitions in E.O. 12958.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lyons, Larry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:56 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: 600 at Guanatanamo bay:US not accountable to any court.
>
>
> Ray,
>
> The case in which the German saboteurs were condemned to
> death is very different. There a lot of evidence that their
> trial was rigged from the beginning. The federal government
> at the time needed the propaganda victory and may have
> railroaded them. While they were guilty, their being in the
> weirmacht should have accorded them POW status.
>
> larry
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 10:42 AM
> > To: CF-Community
> > Subject: RE: 600 at Guanatanamo bay:US not accountable to
> any court.
> >
> >
> > I have to agree with this. (Not the Tim is an idiot part. ;)
> > I've said this before, and now that I'm getting older I feel
> > like I'm repeating myself quite often, but didn't we give the
> > Nazis a fair trial?
> >
> > -Ray
> >
> > >
> > > Oi Tim, you idiot. What the US is doing is comparable to what the
> > > Vietnamese did.
> > >
> > > Just because the US is making it 'comfortable' for them doesn't
> > > change the fact it's disgusting and illegal in the eyes of most
> > > other countries.
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: 20 April 2004 14:29
> > > To: CF-Community
> > > Subject: RE: 600 at Guanatanamo bay:US not accountable to
> > any court.
> > >
> > >
> > > We're beating and torturing people? Killing prisoners?
> > >
> > >
> > > How dare you compare the one to the other. We provide health
> > > care, religious services and food and shelter. We do not
> make these
> > > prisoners work in our fields or factories.
> > > just, whatever.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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