Quote Originally Posted by Ja'chyra
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As a country Iraq should be held to the convention and I didn't hear much of Iraqi army units executing their prisoners, there must have been a few prisoners.
1991 - Iraq captured a few Soldiers and at least one Marine - they abused and beat up the prisoners - a few pictures are available if one really wants to go find them. There is also the allegation that they raped one of the female soldiers that they captured. Then there is about 1000 or more missing Kuwaiti citizens that were last seen being loaded into Iraqi vehicles and sent into Iraq.

Then there is the convoy that was abushed by Iraqi units - you know the story Private Lynch was in this one. There were bodies found in postures and with wounds that would indicate that they were shot after they surrendered

- So no Iraq does not follow the Geneva Convention when it was under Saddam's Regime.

As for terrorist units, can they be held to the same standards as a country that thinks it is the leading light in the fight for freedom, I would think that by the very definition of terrorists that they cant. So, should the US or the UK or whoever then fall to their level, I would say if they do then they are the same as the terrorists themselves. You either claim the moral high ground or you don't you can't have it both ways.
Never said otherwise now did I - I said don't quibble about the Geneva Convention and how it applies. The Geneva Convention does not apply to individuals that commit terrorist activities in a war zone. Something I have said from the very beginning in previous threads where this issue is brought up


Now I've not even said that what has happened in GB is wrong, if it was my choice I would do what was needed to save my countrymen, all I'm saying is that you have made the choice and now you have to live with the consequences.
Yep - and I agree. The Geneva Convention does not apply in the instance of Terrorists.