Donut, you'll have to explain the symantics problem to those who wrote the Geneva Convention, which sets out very specific qualification rules for POWs. Under the rules, those held at Camp X-Ray are not POWs. Of course, this point has been argued back and forth, but one thing that is completely clear
under the GC is that
just because there is a war that does not make
everyone captured a POW.
Of course the phrase POW can be used in the generic sense, as opposed to the GC sense, but
that argument
would be based on symantics.
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[ 06-13-2003, 06:46 AM: Message edited by: Ronn_Bman ]