but she does have a point. If America is unwilling to follow international law, why should Iran?
You can’t be serious! If America followed international law all illegal combatants once documented to be illegal are to be taken out and shot. No trial is required according to international law. They are classified as spies which also don’t need a trial to be shot. Out of uniform of a recognized nation carrying a weapon and firing on our troops is all that is needed to shot the person. Two witnesses that swear it was true and it is a clean shoot. We capture these people and feed them and treat them as if they are legal combatants under the Geneva conventions and people say we are doing them wrong. Please give me three instances where America tortured a soldier from Iraq. Give me any instances where America tortured a soldier from Iran?
Yes, people have made these claims but don’t have the facts to back them up. Did some soldier lose his discipline and break the law? I have no doubt that it has happened more than once but when it is brought to the attention of the military authorities the person or persons involved were punished publicly. The people that make the claims of torture and abuse use it as a weapon to hurt America and sow the seeds of mistrust for our government. But the can’t come up with any that have had this horrible torture they talk about.
American soldiers captured anywhere in the world really can't expect to be treated any better than if they were at Guantanamo or rendition victims.
American soldiers when captured rarely are treated as well as the people in Gitmo! Those people get three hot meals a day, clean beds to sleep in, and unless they are violent never a harsh word is used on them. Conversely when an American is captured he is tortured for days at a time, teeth pulled without pain killers. Not to get information but for fun. Mock executions are held almost daily and nobody cares, but let an American give some prisoner a dirty look and we hear about it all over the world about how mean, rotten, and cruel we are.
“Rendition victims?” Wait a minute! We capture a person on the battle field of Iraq, they person is documented to be a citizen of Saudi Arabia. After the person is interrogated and we have little or no information coming from the person we ship them back to the nation of their birth to finish out their prison sentence or if they promise not to attack America again we sent them home under the watchful eyes of there own nation. How is that bad? Let me guess, you are talking about the Canadian that was on Canada’s watch list and was captured in America. He was not an American citizen and we did not want a suspected terrorist in the states. Canada did not want him back so he was sent back to the country of his birth. What did America do wrong? Yes, the nation he was born in tortured him but not at our request. That was between Canada and the other nation we just wanted him out of our country. It was later found out that he was not a terrorist but he was not on our watch list he was on Canada’s list. Their mistake and we get the blame. There were situations where terrorist were sent to the nation of their birth and were tortured by that nation and the FBI was given access to the transcripts and in two cases was allowed to sit in on the interrogation after the torture. None of what the man told us under torture can be used against him so we only gained information that can be used on other people but not that person. He was going to be tortured anyway why not use the information if it has value.
Before you get on your high horse torture is the standard method of interrogation in that part of the world. It is expected when captured to be beaten and abused just because. It rarely works which is why we don’t do it. Shocked to find out that we don’t use torture as a routine interrogation tool? Don’t be, we have not used torture as a tool since WWII yet other nations have never stopped using it. Torture in America is best used in fiction novels and cinema and shows like 24 not in real life.
because from all reports Britain is yet to break or ignore the Geneva Convention in this current conflict.
Got a little surprise for you, neither has the United States of America.
