>>Fred should have said SHOW nothing, not 'say'. I can say that I've certainly seen Iraqi POWs shown severally, and many in insulting and degrading positions.
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>What insulting positions? Sitting on the ground?

Chris,
The "problem" seems to be in the showing of POWs at all. The U.S. authorities seem to think that showing POWs is a contravention of the Geneva Conventions, and that being the case I say that I've seen Iraqi POWs shown on TV and that their circumstances were less than idyllic (like being pressed into the sand with a foot on his back, like being confined in a group surrounded by razor-wire, like being made to lay in the sand with something covering them).

I have NOT seen the video that is so appalling to U.S. authorities. But I can't blame anyone for seeing (another) double-standard here, where U.S. TV CAN show Iraqi POWs but NO TV should show coalition prisoners.

And one can't help but ask ones self WHY it is so appalling to show the FULL UGLINESS of war? ... In a free and democratic society? There must be some reason, don't you think?


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>>I have to say that I've seen NO Iraqi POWs mis-treated and I am VERY confident that Iraqi POWs will be WELL TREATED. I have no idea as to how Iraq will treat coalition prisoners, though their record of 1991 does not suggest goodness and comfort.