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A little good news for a change:

"Thomas Hamill was found south of Tikrit after he apparently escaped from his captors, US Army spokesman Brig Gen Mark Kimmitt told reporters."

man... i want to read his auto-biography.

Whats amazing is he doesn't want to go back home...he wants to get back to work. 'Course earning $1,000.00 a day driving a fuel tanker truck is a big incentive.

He identified himself, then led the patrol to the house where he had been held captive. The unit surrounded the house and captured two Iraqis with an automatic weapon.

Payback is a bi[spoiler][/spoiler]tch.

The guy escapes and his captors stick around in the same house?? Not the brightest of chaps are they?

Flabby Chick wrote:The guy escapes and his captors stick around in the same house?? Not the brightest of chaps are they?

Too bad we didn't just put them out of their misery.

hey now, i'm sure we're all glad they didn't put the american "outof his misery".
these guys are now POWs, as they should be.

Ummm...not quite Roid. POW status is reserved for soldiers in a national army. The captors are just plain crimminals.

True wood, but there is no longer an Iraqi national army, so what are the fighters in Iraq considered?

Poor sports.

free game, plain and simple. They're lucky we have enough reserve to even take them prisoner in the first place.

Birdseye wrote:True wood, but there is no longer an Iraqi national army, so what are the fighters in Iraq considered?

In Fallujah a lot of them were foreign insurgents so...since they are not wearing a uniform I guess you could call them spies. Then there are the Al Sadr groupies that if they were over here we'd call them gangsta's. Shall I go on?

Do they qualify as "enemy combatants"? If so, I hope they like Cuban food.

wth? any enemy in combat should be considered "Enemy Combatants". What kind of question is that?

They can't be "prisoners of war" without being part of an enemy army we're at war with -- but anyone can be an "enemy combatant" if they're shooting at US troops.

how can you make a distinction between the rights of your own soldiers, and the rights of enemy soldiers?

these guys obviously didn't consider the USA soldier to be deserving of death. yet when the tables are turned you feel fine suggesting death for them?

what is this? your kneejerk reaction to ANY enemy?!

i'm sickened

Roidi babes!!!! Before you puke, go and read what the subject is about.

ok FINE!!! i admit it, i'm actually sickened from spinning around in my chair.

roid,

it's not that the guys didn't want to kill the US guy because they valued his life -- it's that they'd rather use him as a bargaining chip, because they knew we valued his life.

Lothar, that was very profound. Did you come to that conclusion based on your own intellect or perhaps read it somewhere else? Not something I'd expect from a dry science math major. And yes this is a complement 'cause I know you came up with this all by yourself.