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cynara wrote:
mtravelkay wrote in message .com... Miss L. Toe wrote: "Jimbo Minn" wrote in message ... What state do you think is the best to visit in the United States? Our states are like countries in Europe. Guantanemo - reminds me of Nazi germany. Ummmm--IS Guantanemo one of the States anyway? Cuba--right? I was thinking that since it was Miss L. Toe said Guatanemo, then she must have known it wasn't in a US state. Hawaii's cool but I'm slightly prejudiced. I grew up there and hey! It's the only state that was a monarchy before it was a territory then state. Of course the colonies were part of a monarchy. |
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 16:44:33 +0000, mtravelkay wrote:
Miss L. Toe wrote: There was more to Nazi Germany (or I should probably say less) than the Holocaust. Yes, there was more, but I thought you were comparing prison camps. At Gitmo, prisoners have sufficient food, housing, clothing, and medical care provided. They also have the freedom to practice their religion with the muslim chaplains provided. Yes, it is still a prison, but a bit different than where Nazi's put their Jewish "guests". Most German prison camp treated war prisoners quite decently actually. And in that case, their war prisoner status was unambiguous. The Guantanamo camps are probably best described technically as concentration camps, like the Japanese internment camps in WWII, some camps in south Africa during the boers war, and the like. German "concentration camps" in WWII were more like death camps. Still, especially after the grotesquely illegal invasion of the sovereign state of Iraq, the US has no moral status to hold prisoners kidnapped from a foreign land. They are no longer any better morally than Al Qaida. To put things in perspective: surely more civilians have been killed by the US in Iraq than in 9/11? |
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devil wrote:
Still, especially after the grotesquely illegal invasion of the sovereign state of Iraq, the US has no moral status to hold prisoners kidnapped from a foreign land. They are no longer any better morally than Al Qaida. To put things in perspective: surely more civilians have been killed by the US in Iraq than in 9/11? One import difference. Civilians were the target on 9/11. |
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:51:02 +0000, mtravelkay wrote:
devil wrote: Still, especially after the grotesquely illegal invasion of the sovereign state of Iraq, the US has no moral status to hold prisoners kidnapped from a foreign land. They are no longer any better morally than Al Qaida. To put things in perspective: surely more civilians have been killed by the US in Iraq than in 9/11? One import difference. Civilians were the target on 9/11. Does that really make a difference? In the larger scheme of things, targets were similar. A regime, a government. Neither seems to care about civilians. I must say I would have expected the US to hold themselves to higher moral standards. But apparently I was wrong. :-( |
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devil wrote: Most German prison camp treated war prisoners quite decently actually. And in that case, their war prisoner status was unambiguous. Depends on your nationality. By most accounts, Russian/Soviet PoWs weren't treated too good. |
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mtravelkay wrote: devil wrote: Still, especially after the grotesquely illegal invasion of the sovereign state of Iraq, the US has no moral status to hold prisoners kidnapped from a foreign land. They are no longer any better morally than Al Qaida. To put things in perspective: surely more civilians have been killed by the US in Iraq than in 9/11? One import difference. Civilians were the target on 9/11. And civilians were just "collateral" casualties in Iraq |
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 23:33:26 +0000, Not the Karl Orff wrote:
In article , devil wrote: Most German prison camp treated war prisoners quite decently actually. And in that case, their war prisoner status was unambiguous. Depends on your nationality. By most accounts, Russian/Soviet PoWs weren't treated too good. You are correct. But then, neither were German PoWs in Russia. This based upon the USSR not being a signatory on the Geneva (?) convention. (Or is the Hague?) |
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