Obama team meets with anti-torture generals

[308Mike]

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Obama team meets with anti-torture generals

By Pamela Hess - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Dec 3, 2008 20:50:46 EST

WASHINGTON — A dozen retired generals met with President-elect Barack Obama’s top legal advisers Wednesday, pressing their case to overturn some of the Bush administration’s terrorism-fighting policies.

Obama has criticized practices that he says amount to torturing detainees during interrogations and has promised to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Among those who met with Eric Holder, Obama’s pick to be attorney general, and Greg Craig, the incoming White House counsel, were Gen. Charles Krulak, a former Marine Corps commandant, and retired Marine Gen. Joseph Hoar, former chief of the Central Command.

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[The Quiet Man]

Hmmm...no torture (already against the law and the evil Bush is on board with that), no harsh interrogation methods are to be used? Their religious needs are being met. Their health is monitored and well taken care of. They are fed a diet that is approved of by their religious standards. What methods are they going to be able to use to extract information from our ENEMIES? Sending them to bed without dessert? These guys weren't picked up for spitting on the sidewalk...they were picked up on the battlefield as enemy combatants. Note that I said enemy combatants and not enemy soldiers. The Geneva convention and the Hague accords do not apply in the battles we are currently fighting...isn't that giving these animals enough of a break?

[Steamforger]

These guys weren't picked up for spitting on the sidewalk...they were picked up on the battlefield as enemy combatants.

If you're not allowed to get any intel from them, stop picking them up off the battlefield. Leave'em for the crows and buzzards I say...

[mekender]

Under the Geneva conventions a soldier not in uniform can be summarily tried and executed as a spy on the battlefield.

sounds good to me.

[rightisright]

I wonder how all the pussy-ass libshits who bitched about Gitmo would feel if these scumbags where housed in a nice facility in their neighborhood...