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I never said what you say I said. Please, everyone, can we at least agree that there is a difference between "Convention" and "Conventions"? Everyone is protected under Article 3, okay?
Anyone who says that terrorism suspects are POWs, thereby implicitly admits that the war on terror is a war. I don't admit that, I think that terrorism should be fought with police action, not cluster bombs. Terrorists are criminals, not soldiers.
By the way giving criminal defendant status to detainees protects them much better than POW status, inasmuch as it gives them the right to their day in court. If Guantanamo prisoners had been treated as criminals, most of them would have been freed within weeks of their detention. POW status is a terrible thing in a war that, by definition, can never end.
