The War Crimes Prez
We've heard this before, but apparently there's now confirmation that the U.S. is seizing the wives of suspected insurgents to try to force the husbands to surrender.
I am not absolutely certain, but I believe this is a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. Anyone know for sure? If so, one more war crime to chalk up against this president.
The U.S. Army in Iraq has at least twice seized and jailed the wives of suspected insurgents in hopes of "leveraging" their husbands into surrender, U.S. military documents show.
In one case, a secretive task force locked up the young mother of a nursing baby, a U.S. intelligence officer reported. In the case of a second detainee, one American colonel suggested to another that they catch her husband by tacking a note to the family's door telling him "to come get his wife."
I am not absolutely certain, but I believe this is a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions. Anyone know for sure? If so, one more war crime to chalk up against this president.
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As long as we are straight on this distinction:
*when some group in Iraq abducts a Western female, that is terrorism.
*when the US Army abducts an Iraqi female, that is a counter-insurgency technique.
The captors of the Christian Science Monitor reporter, as I recall, bargained her for the release of Iraqi women in US custody. It's good that the Iraqis pick up these techniques of civilization from the West, huh?
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