No longer 'just a bill on Capitol Hill', 'anti-terror' law

[kahljorn]

not really just you i was just responding to the thread/topic in general.

the bush thing was directed at mburbank though.

"In my opinion, it gives our enemies, present and future, the green light to torture OUR captive soldiers"

Well, if they were given the same rights we give our enemy combatants according to this bill then they would only be torturing people who commited greivous unlawful crimes of war, such as needlessly and purposely killing civilians.

That's why the entire argument against it is stupid.
The geneva laws are basically still in effect except for people who themselves have violated it. I don't see how any humanitarian rights are broken. Protecting soldiers from needless slaughter is a good thing, however there should be distinction from people who kill in a war and people who murder, right? Same type of distinction between soldiers who kill other soldiers and soldiers who go around killing everyone and rape villages etc.