MCCAIN'S BILL

whtfucover said...

exactly, the terrorists are not soldiers, they are enemy combatants, not covered under the Geneva Convention. You can pretty much say the Viet-Cong were the same thing, thats why the US hammered them, but treated the NVA a lot differently. As for McCain, there are laws that existed before he came up with his idea to grandstand, pure political grandstanding. Thats why I believe strongly in term limits.

that's what I never could understand, they were classifying these people as enemy combatants, not prisoners of war, they didn't not belong to any organized state run army, so there for don't follow under the laws of the Geneva Conventions. And its not like the word insurgents didn't exist at the time, they had insurgents during the Russian Revolution. Yet no provisions were made for them in the Geneva Accords.