To 53. Derek:
I love the completely poorly educated… you do understand that the GC was in fact pretty much the first modern treaty that legalized torture… no probably not since you’ve never read it. You see the GC said that you couldn’t torture 2 groups of ppl. 1. Soldiers and 2. Civ who took no active part in the battle.
Now as anyone with a basic understand of laws knows… If you define groups of ppl in law you also define ppl into another group called “other”. You see the GC defines 3 groups. Soldiers, Civs, and everyone else. Soldiers and Civs can’t be tortured… however everyone else can be. This is simple basic law. O and add in the GC even if signed doesn’t apply if the other party doesn’t follow it… even if they signed it. Thus al qaeda which has neither signed nor even remotely attempted to follow the GC are OPEN FREAKING GAME.
As for libby I can see you have no idea about it and that would take alot longer to explain then the GC.
