Benefits Quote by John Yoo

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct…

— John Yoo

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

— Peter Maurer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

— Anonymous

An unlawful war can't make lawful captives

— Samuel Sewall

However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane…

— Bill Shuster

The United States of course wants to follow the highest standards of conduct with regard to enemy combatants who follow the rules of war.…

— John Yoo

In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.

— Alberto Gonzales

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

— Paulo Coelho

[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of war detention.

— Chris Matthews

It is also worth asking whether the strict limitations of Geneva make sense in a war against terrorists.

— John Yoo

There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva…

— Noam Chomsky

Any person cannot recruitment in the Army to serve the nation. But only in the case because there is not any other perfect option…

— Mohd Aariff Khan