DU the MSNBC question of the day

[DesertRat]

Do you think detainees are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions?
Yes 73%
No 27%

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080261/

[helderheid]

1. done and RECOMMENDED

[DesertRat]

6. Thanks. It's hard to believe that 27% would say no.

[Avalux]

26. That's the 25 or so percent John Dean speaks of -

the authoritarian personality types who will NEVER change their minds about our fucked up government.

[hootinholler]

34. The Backwash

As Colbert so aptly put it.

-Hoot

[RagingInMiami]

2. Another way to phrase it

Do you think the United States should be exempt from the Geneva Conventions?

[DesertRat]

7. Exactly! n/t

[neoblues]

13. Or...

Do you think the United States should reject all recognized/accepted standards of behavior regarding the rights and treatments of detainees?

or perhaps,

Do you think the United States should have broken (and continue to break) it's treaty obligations with respect to following the Geneva Conventions?

or

Do you the the United States has a right** to abduct/detain, abuse and torture anyone it pleases? (By Extension: Should that include the right to be free from prosecution/consequences if in the process they should incidentally cause their deaths or, for that matter, execute them?)

**would that be "a perfect right" or a "God-given right" or some such.

[oasis]

3. still 73 --27

[Uncle Joe]

Come on people vote, at 27% voting they do not,

* will think he has a mandate.

[cboy4]

4. done.

[OhioChick]

Done

* 7007 responses


73% Yes
27% No

[rzemanfl]

5. You know, what we should do is vote "No" and make it look

like Rove fucked up.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. Done

:kick:

[rosesaylavee]

9. Done

Do you think detainees are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions? * 7062 responses

Yes 73%
No 27%

[AlwaysDemocrat]

10. Done (n/t)

[me b zola]

11. Of course they are

How a nation treats their "enemies" does not define the "enemies", it defines the nation that holds them.

Do you think detainees are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions? * 7038 responses

Yes......73%

No.......27%

[biscotti]

12. done

73% yes

[City Lights]

14. voted. n/t

[jody]

15. More importantly,SCOTUS said detainees were protected by Geneva Convention

[hootinholler]

35. They did indeed.

Please check out the petition in the sig.

-Hoot

[smokey nj]

16. Done n/t

[DesertRat]

17. Thanks for voting this onto the greatest page!

:bounce:

[Erika]

18. done n/t

[ellenfl]

19. still at 73%. eom

[dave502d]

20. Done. n/t

[annabanana]

21. I see the "backwash principle" applies..

That ol' dirty 30....

The "some of the people all of the time" brigade...

[veness]

22. Done.

Do you think detainees are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions?

Yes 73%
No 27%

* 7476 responses

[Mr_Spock]

23. There's that 23% of RW extremists who would succumb to an authoritarian

regime.

[liberal N proud]

24. 27% bu$h's base

I think we should intern that 27% for week without any rights and watch them scream

[citizen snips]

25. done

[Critters2]

27. Done

Do you think detainees are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions? * 7643 responses

Yes 73%

No 27%

[sweetladybug]

29. done

Do you think detainees are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions? * 7771 responses

Yes
73% No
27%

[Vidar]

28. done

[diddlysquat]

30. done

[snappyturtle]

31. Still 73%-27%!!! NT

[katinmn]

32. done. Still at 73-27

[Booster]

33. Done and a little kick.

[bigwillq]

36. Done

Do you think detainees are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions? * 8687 responses

Yes
73%

No
27%