GITMO Complies with The Geneva Convention...

If the bush opponents and the press would have read the Geneva Convention it clearly states several different categories. A POW is a person who is in in a recognized Military Unit, in Uniform and fighting for the Country you are attacking. A Civilian who is not in uniform and is fighting the attack is considered an enemy combatant and is afforded certain protections, not as much as as a POW. There there are illegal enemy combatants. these are people who are not from the country being attacked, are not in the military and are caught fighting the attackers or with weapons. They have no right and it is up to the capturing party to decide what to do and how to treat them. In the case of the Iraq war POW would be soldiers in the Iraqi Armed Forces. Enemy Combatants would be Iraqi Civilians fighting against the occupation such as Al Sadar forces. The Iraq government could charge them with being rebels. Those people fighting who were not from Iraq fighting against the invasion or the new government would be Illegal Enemy Combatants. According to some interpretations of the Geneva Convention we could have taken them out and shot them and it would have been legal. We could torture them and hold them for as long as we wanted to with out recourse. The Red Cross or Red Crescent could not visit them unless we wanted them to. They RC had the right to visit the POW only. The POW were to be fed the same or equivalent food as the US Troops - not special diets. By not using the terms Enemy Combatants or Illegal Enemy Combatants President Obama is showing his ignorance of International Treaties and legal agreements. These are not your Politically Correct terms but legal defined terms and using then wrong term can have far reaching legal consequences. Maybe he should spend less time on the NCAA tournament and more time reading the major international treaties.

The (Bush) haters hate him (and conservatives) so much that national security (ours or others) doesn't matter, not does demonizing our own country in the eyes and ears of the world.

Yeah, you'll never see the Obama crowd acknowledge that Obama's own investigation proved that they were abiding by the Geneva convention. You'll just keep hearing them say we tortured people because we made them listen to AC/DC, Nine inch Nails, and the Sesame Street theme song. The simple fact is, those terrorists received far better treatment and a better quality of life than most American citizens currently incarcerated in our prisons.