Is the Present Government Hurting U.S. Democracy with Fake News?

I am confused at how you can assume that there is an age limit on intent and action. Are you saying that the US just picked an area in Iraq, picked everyone up, and carted them off to jail?Also, how does age define the "camp" in which the prisoners are held?What are the age limits for being allowed to volunteer to shoot US soldiers for the insurgent factions within Iraq? I believe many of our soldiers misconstrued the innocence of the children in Vietnam much to their regret.Precisely what are the "rights" of Prisoners of War as stated in the Geneva Convention? (I am not sure that this is the overarching document with regards to the conduct of international war)

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I am confused at how you can assume that there is an age limit on intent and action.

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Easy - our culture treats those under the age of majority, variously 18 or 21, are legally incompetent and their legal guardian is responsible for their actions.

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What are the age limits for being allowed to volunteer to shoot US soldiers for the insurgent factions within Iraq?

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Self defence has no age limit.

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I believe many of our soldiers misconstrued the innocence of the children in Vietnam much to their regret.

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Or alternately, in Vietnam as in Iraq, treating the whole population as suspects tends to convince them that you are their oppressors, not their liberators.

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Precisely what are the "rights" of Prisoners of War as stated in the Geneva Convention?

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Loosely speaking, to be imprisoned without undue distress, to be expected only to answer questions regarding their name, rank and serial number, and to be provided with medical care, access to the Red Cross or similar organs, and letters.

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Great source of info though. "Fallujah residents.

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Yes, a really great source. Direct eye-witness testimony.

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No, the US (or coalition) is not using napalm.

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Yes, it did.An reports of US troops killing Iraqi's who opened their doors have also been strongly reinforced with further personal accounts.The US committed atrocities in Fallujah and the perpetrators must be brought to justice.

Least this message just get buried and ingnored, closing this topic for a while.Adminnemooseus

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This is an admin/non-admin mixed perspective message.I believe that the news/information media in the U.S. functions as the fourth branch of government, and I think the mainstream media has been doing a damn poor job of it.Now, my non-admin counterpart leans to what is considered, for lack of a better term, "the left". This position may or may not be improperly influencing my administrative actions, but I have been making an extra effort to try to have happening what I view as a quality "News/Information Media" theme topic. This included giving this topic an extra hard time when it was a "Proposed New Topic". It also includes me having now closed this topic down.For essentially the same reasons, I have also closed the Al Gore, the Internet, and the Gullibility of the Populace topic, there suggesting a new topic be started. Media Leanings is the resultant new topic. We shall see how that one goes.Adminnemooseus

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