WASHINGTON (CNN) -- All detainees in U.S. military custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are to be granted all the privileges of the Geneva Conventions, sources have told CNN.
This is the first time the detainees -- including those suspected of being members of al Qaeda -- will have the full protection of the international conventions on holding prisoners of war.
The new guidelines are to be released in a memo from the Pentagon, the sources said on Tuesday. - CNN -------- It's only a step, but at least it's in the right direction. This, plus bush's apparent restraint in dealing with Iran and North Korea, seems to be a sign that the administration is finally getting it. Maybe we can regain some of the world's respect that we have lost lately. -------- (I notice that CNN, thought by many to be part of the Left-leaning media, has used the word "privileges" in its article; most civilized people consider the Geneva Conventions as rights. It is usually the political Right that views humane treatment as a privilege.)
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I'm fortunate to have never been a P.O.W, but if I were an active military today I would hate like Hell to think that my country refused to abide by the Geneva Convention. How unfair to expose our own soldiers in that way for whatever dubious advantage we might think it provides our intelligence.
