2005-01-06 - 3:52 p.m.
It seems that the democratic party is becoming extremely desperate. Voting irregularities in Ohio? What voting irregularities? Even John Kerry has stated "Our legal teams on the ground have found no evidence that would change the outcome of the election".
Still, democrats such as Barbara Boxer insist on stomping their feet and crying about flaws in the voting system which they have no evidence of. The objection of Sen. Barbara Boxer and Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones were defeated by votes of 267 to 31 in the House and 74 to 1 in the Senate. These women are accomplishing nothing but making their party look foolish.
I heard a genious quote from Rush Limbaugh on the radio today. "If there is a pile of feces anywhere to be found, you can count on the democrats to go out of their way to step in it".
The democrats seem to be proving this more every day.
So not only do we have democrats whining about an election that was obviosly legal to everyone who pays any attention, but now they are also crying over Bush's attorney general nominee.
The Democrats are claiming that Alberto Gonzales endorses torture and improper treatment of POW's in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It is well known that the United States has used methods of extracting information from prisoners such as sleep deprivation and water boarding. My question to the democrats is....SO WHAT?
The American military has not put any prisoners through any type of hardship that our own servicemembers don't go through themselves. Waterboarding is a standard part of our military's SERE (survive, evade, resist, escape) school. We endure days and weeks of sleep deprivation on a regular basis, and go for many days at a time without food or water.
There was of course the situation with Abu Gharab prison. Everyone knows that what happened there was extremely illegal, and those soldiers are being punished accordingly. What happened to prisoners there served no purpose. No intelligence was gathered from it, and the soldiers responsible should and will be prosecuted.
However, the democratic party claims that harsh interrogation of prisoners which has led to valuable intelligence is a violation of the Geneva Convention.
What they fail to realize, aside from the fact that we do not interrogate prisoners in a severely violent manner, is that Iraqi prisoners are not protected by the Geneva Convention.
The following is a quote from article 4 of the Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, adopted 12 August 1949 by the Diplomatic Conference for the Establishment of International Conventions for the Protection of Victims of war, held in Geneva:
A. Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:
1. Members of the armed forces of a Party to the conflict as well as members of militias or volunteer corps forming part of such armed forces.
2. Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:
(a) That of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates
(b) That of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance
(c) That of carrying arms openly
(d) That of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.
3. Members of regular armed forces who profess allegiance to government or an authority not recognized by the Detaining Power.
4. Persons who accompany the armed forces without actually being members thereof, such as civilian members of military aircraft crews, war correspondents, supply contractors, members of labour units or of services responsible for the welfare of the armed forces, provided that they have received authorization from the armed forces which they accompany, who shall provide them for that purpose with an identity card similar to the annexed model.
5. Members of crews, including masters, pilots and apprentices, of the merchant marine and the crews of civil aircraft of the Parties to the conflict, who do not benefit by more favourable treatment under any other provisions of international law.
6. Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
This completely excludes the terrorists that we are fighting in Iraq as legal prisoners of war with rights. They do not openly carry arms. They do not have a responsible commander. They do not follow laws or customs of war and do not have any kind of distinctive sign or colors. They take hostages and publicly execute prisoners, both of which are prohibited by the Geneva Conventions. So who is breaking the law, us or them?
And the democratic party insists on giving these people more rights than they are willing to give an unborn American citizen.
I'll continue more on this later.....If I keep going I'll be late for dinner with the in-laws (fun, huh?). Anyone who would like to read the Geneva Conventions for themselves and see the sheer stupidity that is the Democratic Party can see them at www.ohchr.org/english
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