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EDITORIAL: FREE PRESS EDITORIAL: Don't Bend Rules of War, Even if Enemy Does: The United States must hold to high standards, not give terrorists more recruiting tools.(Editorial)
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Detroit Free Press (Detroit, MI)
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September 24, 2006
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Sep. 24--There is something oxymoronic about the "rules of war," but the civilized nations of the world do have them. They are called the Geneva Conventions and have been around in one form or another since the 1860s, a sad recognition of humanity's history of conflict.
The United States was among nations ratifying the major update of the conventions in 1949 that covered the treatment of prisoners in reaction to the horrors of World War II.
These are the rules the U.S. Supreme Court emphatically declared this year should bind the government in its handling of suspected international terrorists. President George W. Bush wants an act of Congress to bend them, to give ...