I see a different side to this. As we are following the Geneva Convention, however pollyannaish that decision may be, we have to provide our prisoners with the same level of medical care as the troops. Troops in Afghanistan will be recieving H1N1 vaccines soon.
It's a Geneva Convention thing, not looking out for muslims thing...
But the docs at Gitmo should definitely word it as "Achmed, would you like your SWINE flu vaccine?"
You are over the top on this one Doc.
I guess I am a hack and slash person, I if a guard would explain How the vaccine is made from eggs, the ovaries of the pig.
After the last 40 years of seeing how our POWS have been treated by others, I find no problem with treating our enemies exactly as they do ours.
The Geneva Convention makes no one but us adherer to it. Check out the country's that agreed to go along with this Gentlemans view of how to treat someone that wants to destroy us.
Next thing we know our troops will be required to march in file with file closers behind them.
We are at freaking war, would Sherman have devastated the south without his slash and burn policy on the way to Atlanta.?
I do think the prisoners deserve a chance to defend their actions in a court of law, based there in Gitmo. These prisoners are not covered by the Geneva Convention, they are not solders taken in battle.
These are cells of civilians that have much like our street gangs decided to cause misery..
Strange but I do not focus on their religion as any reason to destroy others. I feel they use their faith to commit horrid crimes against their own people and the world at large.
Not unlike the Crusaders that marched into Turkey with the Muslim blood up to the flanks of their horses.
Ah, the battles that are waged on behalf of someones God, good excuse to rob, rape and pillage.
As a very famous prophet once said, " when belief in god causes harm to just one person, then civilisation is better off without religion or any faith in God".
