Posted by
Tzimisce on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 9:51:19 PM
I don't know why I'm even wasting my time writing this cause the people it would apply too aren't going to listen.
Iran is clearly violating the Geneva Convention. You remember, that document that was a fad with liberal bloggers and the unbiased, non partisan media a few years ago every time Guantanamo Bay came up? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe that Iran was one of the signers of Geneva and as leftists have screamed at me so often, once you sign a document like that there is no backing out regardless of any other factors.
Iran's crimes violating Geneva include the following: humiliating prisoners, denying them their right to practice their own religion (Faye Turney was forced to wear a burka) and making statements publically about what they were doing.
Where is the left wing outcry? There isn't any against Iran. The usual gang of empty headed suspects are making the usual bunch of empty headed claims. The flavor of the week theory is that the Bush administration (probably from Karl Rove's desk) set this up to simply to give us a reason to attack Iran. Of course, you'd think that they would have used American troops but ideas like this never seem to occur to the smartest amongst us.
The English Government claims that their troops were captured in Iraqi waters while searching a merchant vessel for contraband. Of course, the English government has been known to lie when caught dirty. The Brits have brought forth satellite images showing that their soldiers were in Iraqi waters.
The Iranian government has also been known to lie. They say that the English invaded Iran. And as proof, they're offering us confessions from the soldiers involved. Coming from a nation that is known for its open practices of torture and human rights violations, call me suspicious.
One could argue that since the West has supposedly violated the Geneva Convention, Iran is justified in violating it as well. So we go back to the old lefty argument that two wrongs do in fact, make a right. Thus if Iran drops a nuke, it'll be okay for us to do it as well (or would that be an over response?)
Sorry I didn't mean to interrupt the investigation of no laws being broken in the eight attorneys being fired.