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Old 10-23-2007, 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by cmac2012 View Post
1. The Germans that Roosevelt had summarily executed were plain clothes agents in our nation, on our shores. Far, far different than us going to Afghanistan and fighting and capturing a bunch of fools who were not part of an army, rather just farmers or similar ilk doing what they thought was defending their country.

2. Rules that we made w/o consulting them. Perhaps someone in their country signed onto it at one time or another but face it, these are zones in the gray area of governance. And with the poverty of these characters, expecting them to all have matching uniforms is unrealistic.

Besides, Batperson and Robin, you may recall our founding fathers didn't play by those rules all the time either cause to do so would have resulted in their certain slaughter by the vastly superior British forces and their aim was something apart from committing a fool's suicide.

Clarify, please.
You want us to abide by rules that don't work and want us to excuse the enemy for not abiding by those rules. This is what we call a "double standard", the result of which is a higher likelihood of dead American soldiers. You're okay with that?

The Geneva Conventions did not exist in 1776.

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