NOYB wrote:
We really don't give a rat's ass, Jim. The other side doesn't abide
by any
rules, and we sure as hell shouldn't.


And this is why the rest of the civilized world considers us "The bully
on the block"

We claim to be better -- see Bush/Rummy Quote as follows
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Army Lt. Gen. John Abizaid also criticized the Al Jazeera satellite
channel for broadcasting images of the prisoners to much of the Arab world.

The officials said the U.S. military is using information from the
broadcasts to try to identify the soldiers in order to notify their
families.

American and humanitarian authorities roundly criticized the interviews
and the treatment of the first American Prisoners of War (POWs).

The Geneva Convention

"We don't know all the details yet. We do know that we expect them to be
treated humanely just like we are treating the prisoners of theirs that
we capture humanely," President Bush told reporters after returning to
the White House from the Camp David presidential retreat.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that parading prisoners
of war before television cameras is a violation of the Geneva
Convention, a set of rules that supposedly govern nations' conduct in
the event of war.

The International Red Cross has also said the broadcasts violated
Convention rules.

"Article 13 of the Third Geneva Convention says clearly that prisoners
of war must at all times be protected... against insult and public
curiosity," said Red Cross spokeswoman Nada Doumani.

Iraqi Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad told a Baghdad news
conference Iraq would treat prisoners of war in accordance with the
Geneva Convention.