>>>>Just make sure that the next time you show up for war in a uniform, you pack your civies... :o)
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>>>>Oh, I forgot, that's only the U.S. so it only works for those fighting against the U.S....so in the case of Canada, make sure anyone you capture who is shooting at you, you read them their legal rights...
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>>>Not me. I figure you capture people on a battlefield, they are enemy soldiers regardless how they're dressed. Maybe the jeans and the "kill, kill, kill" tshirts are their uniform.
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>>>>Interesting that when enemies were captured, it is standard process to 'read them their rights,' but the rights read to them are those under the Geneva conventions, not legal rights under a civilian judicial system. I guess that is all changing and the world likes it...
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>>>Of course, the problem becomes what to do with captured enemies who are not signatories to the Geneva Convention. Or does it really matter. If you, as a captor, are a signatory, then maybe you should live up to it anyway - from a moral standpoint if nothing else.
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>>>>I think this would all work much better if organized fighting forces who were captured were recognized as POWS. Afterall, if they are fighting in a military conflict, then it should be so IMHO. That would be much better than what happened to those caught in civilian clothes assisting the 'enemy' during WWII on some of the sides of the conflict...
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>>>It would certainly uncomplicate things. The whole idea of 'soldier', 'battlefield', 'enemy combatant', 'terrorist' has become almost too nuanced for most people to be able to figure out the subtleties that seem to make sense only to military personnel - and not even them sometimes.
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>>There is a lot of that going on right now. One minute you are in a firefight and sadly often those shooting at you are doing so from within a home with children inside, but you don't know that. The next minute you have captured those shooting at you, and you have to get information from HQ on what to do with them...
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>Never been in a firefight myself, so keep in mind that I'm speaking from great ignorance, but I thought you just hand them back to some sort of prison compound and let those in charge there take care of them.

Yes, but there are differnt prisons and different holding cells depending on who is captured