[Vision2020] Our Captured GIs

[Chasuk]

On 6/19/06, rvrcowboy <rvrcowboy at clearwire.net> wrote:

> Yes, I am curious what people like Nick Gier think of these young American
> men.  Do they believe they deserve what they get?   After all, they
> volunteered to serve in a military commanded by the great war criminal,
> George Bush, himself!  Surely, they knew they would be called upon to commit
> war crimes of their own under such circumstances.  Doesn't that make them
> criminals in his mind as well?

Have they mistreated prisoners of war?  Have they participated in
genocide?  Are they guilty of rape, torture, enforced prostitution,
enslavement, or other crimes against humanity? No?  Then they aren't
war criminals.  Yes?  Then they deserve what they get, which should be
decided by an international court of law.  Klaus Barbie was a war
criminal.  Adolf Eichmann.  Hermann Goring.  Heinrich Himmler.  Josef
Goebbels.  Slobodan Milošević.  Pol Pot.  Joseph Stalin.  Tomoyuki
Yamashita.  Saddam Hussein.  These young American men  are almost
certainly guilty of nothing more serious than misplaced trust in their
Commander-in-Chief.

> I can only imagine people like Gier celebrating the demise of these fine young men.

What an unfounded, childish, defamatory, hateful thing to say.

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