Re: The U.S. War on Journalists

"Andrew Swallow" <am.swallow@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Billzz wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>
>> I was just passing by and note that US military people have never been 
>> protected by the Geneva Convention.  Not the Germans, not the Japanese,

>> nor the North Koreans, nor the North Vietnamese, nor the Viet Cong, nor

>> whatever Islamic factions in the Middle East have ever followed the 
>> Geneva Conventions.
>
> We can say a lot about the Nazis but the German military did respect
> the Geneva Convention with respect to the British and Americans.  The
> "Coldiz" and "Great Escape" film stories would be very different
> otherwise.  An ealier version was used in WW2.

It's a good thing you were not there and did not "look" Jewish.

http://www.thirteen.org/pressroom/release.php?get=29


>
> The USSR did not respect the Geneva Convention and was punished by
> getting its soldiers killed.
>
> Andrew Swallow