Dave wrote:

On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:00:16 -0400, DSK said:

If they are enemies, then they are accorded the treatment due to
prisoners.

Nice try, but no cigar, Doug. There's no convention dealing with "enemies."
There is one dealing with "prisoners of war." The two are not synonyms.

Now the question is, was your argument evidence of your inability to think
clearly, or the opposite--your ability to manipulate the language to fool
others who don't think clearly.

Is the United States not a member of the United Nations and as such a
signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights?

Cheers
Martin