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War Powers, War Lies: Part 7: Captive Taxonomy

Posted on August 5, 2005, 11:36 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Big Picture.

But we had better be prepared for the consequences. Someone, somewhere, is going to try us, quite seriously, for war crimes. And somewhere else, someone is going to commit war crimes against our soldiers because we fail to recognize their own combatants as POWs. And it won’t be pretty.

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