The ICRC is the only organization mandated by international treaty to monitor the observance of the Geneva Convention governing the treatment of prisoners, and it has the right to visit prisoners. But the GOP report charges that the group has exceeded the bounds of its mission by trying to "reinterpret and expand international law" in favor of terrorists and insurgents; lobbying for arms-control issues that are not within its mandate, such as a ban on the use of land mines; and "inaccurately and unfairly" accusing U.S. officials of not adhering to the Geneva Convention.
I get it. Shoot the messengers whenever they say things you don't want to hear. Eventually, you'll hear only what you want to hear.
I think they learned this from Southern Baptists.
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Well if they can't control it get rid of it. PBS because of Bill Moyers for telling the truth. Now the Red Cross for telling the truth. We also have a compaign to remain in Irag because it would be disaster if we left. What a catch 22 we started it on false pretenses, we can't control it and now we can't leave. How many more young men and women have to die to satisfy W.
Nixon used the same arguments to keep us in Vietnam four years longer at the cost of twenty-five thousand lives, Billions of Dollars, and then signed the peace treaty he had been refusing for four years in order to get re-elected. The American public never seems to learn.
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