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|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/columnists/all/stories/DN-davis_20edi.ART.State.Edition1.3e2f11e.html
|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/columnists/all/stories/DN-davis_20edi.ART.State.Edition1.3e2f11e.html
|quote=" We are not engaged in battle with any particular nation that might claim signatory status to the Geneva Conventions. We are not fighting any uniformed entity that remotely aspires to the pleasantries enumerated within. As such, it is tragically inane to hear United States senators whine about our obligations to afford terrorist combatants certain dignities out of fear of what enemy captors might do to us. "
|quote="We are not engaged in battle with any particular nation that might claim signatory status to the Geneva Conventions. We are not fighting any uniformed entity that remotely aspires to the pleasantries enumerated within. As such, it is tragically inane to hear United States senators whine about our obligations to afford terrorist combatants certain dignities out of fear of what enemy captors might do to us."
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Latest revision as of 15:38, September 29, 2006

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Author(s) Mark Davis
Source The Dallas Morning News
Date September 20, 2006
URL http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/columnists/all/stories/DN-davis_20edi.ART.State.Edition1.3e2f11e.html
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Quotes-start.png "We are not engaged in battle with any particular nation that might claim signatory status to the Geneva Conventions. We are not fighting any uniformed entity that remotely aspires to the pleasantries enumerated within. As such, it is tragically inane to hear United States senators whine about our obligations to afford terrorist combatants certain dignities out of fear of what enemy captors might do to us." Quotes-end.png


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