>>There is a huge difference between independent reporters coming upon these Iraqi soldiers, either in the process of surrendering or being held, and Iraqi STATE TV broadcasting these interviews. I just saw brief clips of the American POWs, and they look terrified. I have seen the Iraqi POWs in clips, they look bored.
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>How do we know that the Iraqi TV folks didn't just come across these and over-zealously "report" it??? People DO get anxious some times, especially reporters and especially when bombs are dropping around them.

Because Iraqi TV is state controlled. These are not independent reporters. They work for the government of Iraq. The American POWs were in a room. Are you suggesting that the Iraqi military took the POWs into this room, and that Iraqi TV reporters just "stumbled" upon them?

>I'm very confident that you are WRONG. If the U.S. has signed on to the Geneva Conventions - and we all know they have - then ALL of its citizens are bound by them. So maybe it is high time for the U.S. government to publish its rules and guidelines to the U.S.-owned media so that they can ensure remaining in compliance. Sure, that might look like a form of censorship, but if that's what it takes, then that's what it takes.

I don't think either you nor I are international law experts. For what it's worth, I would be glad if no TV networks showed any POWs.

>I was very glad to see TracyH's post on POW treatment. While I had confidnece that coalition governments' troops complied fully, it is always better to hear it from someone who's BEEN THERE! Governments have been known to lie in the past, especially in the fog of war.