[antimedia] antimedia: Don Surber hits the nail on the head....

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Posted by antimedia:
Don Surber hits the nail on the head....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1155612070.shtml


   ....with [1]this post about a NY TImes editorial.

     Todayâs editorial against the Bush administration in the New York
     Times ended:

     âThe Geneva Conventions protect Americans. If this country changes
     the rules, itâs changing the rules for Americans taken prisoner
     abroad. That is far too high a price to pay so this administration
     can hang on to its misbegotten policies.â

     Really? Tell that to the family of Daniel Pearl, who was beheaded.
     Tell that to the family of Nick Berg, who was beheaded.
     Tell that to the family of Paul Johnson, who was beheaded.
     Tell that to the family of Eugene Armstrong, who was beheaded.
     Tell that to the family of Jack Hensley. Who was beheaded.
     Let us change the rules for Americans taken prisoner abroad. Let us
     stop the beheading.

   Yeah, and tell it to the families of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca and Pfc.
   Thomas L. Tucker, who were "protected" by the Geneva Conventions.
   I'm sick and tired of the whining and ocmplaining about the damn
   Geneva Conventions. I defy anyone to show me one damn war where the
   Conventions did our troops any damn good at all.
   The Geneva Conventions are good for one thing -- browbeating the US.
   They haven't done a damn thing for the thousands and thousands of
   American servicemen and women who have been treated in the most
   despicable ways by every damn enemy we have ever had.
   As usual, the New York Times is full of crap.

References

   1. http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2006/08/beheading-nyt-editorial.html