Questions and opinions on torture/insurgent "rights"

[cdat1ad]

OK, I am going to ask a few questions on this hot topic of torture and the rights of captured insurgents

Comments

[usekh]

You are completely wrong on point one. Under international and US law that is, how shall we say, total bullshit.

[cdat1ad]

Again I reference the US Military treatment of Nazi Werewolf squads. They were "interrogated" on the spot then shot and left to rot. I have no issue with this. As far as gaining knowledge I again have no issue with NON-UNIFORMED combatants being tortured. P.O.W.'s however can be asked and then sent to a P.O.W. Camp, an important difference.

[usekh]

Did it happen? arguably yes. Was it explictly against the laws at the laws even at the time? yes (although it was indeed an order to shoot them on sight. Torture was never authorised however)

Do we have different laws on treatment of 'unlawful combatants' in 2007, yes we do.

[melvin_udall]

Does the Shining Light of Liberal Righteousness that shines down on your pulpit blind you so much that you can't see the specific example he cited?

[usekh]

I wondered when the hyena would start yipping. Up for another round of misquoting?

[melvin_udall]

The label is as inaccurate as the assertion. Nothing new from such a bastion of Liberal ethics. Good for you for managing to answer his question after the second time it was asked. That's a huge improvement.

[usekh]

Yip! yip!

[melvin_udall]

Yes, yes. Unoriginal, along with repetition of a lie makes it true. You're pathetic.

[virtual_anima]

Postcounting! Liar and coward! Hyenas and trolls! Have I missed any? BINGO!

[melvin_udall]

You poor troll.

[langostino]

Nope, she got that one.

[melvin_udall]

Well if a fellow hyena lends support, how can it not be true? You people are ridiculous.

[usekh]

Well lets pretend for one instant you are here to argue honestly. Which would be a stretch but anyway. Whether or not the werwolves were shot out of hand in WWII it is not legal now, not was it legal then (although it was ordered from the information I have)

So the -main- part of his point that it is justified/legal whatever after capture to torture and then kill them without any trial by the current laws of land warfare is bullshit. It is explicitly illegal now.

[melvin_udall]

Don't paint me wiht your motives. Waht's this, the third time in one conversation you're stealing my lines, and poorly? You people get worse daily.

[usekh]

Well I guess that covers the first part of my post.

Enjoy your yipping.

[melvin_udall]

So long as your hyena buddies cheer you on you're loved, eh?

What's this, the fourth time in one conversation you're stealing my lines, and poorly? You people get worse daily.