Originally posted by taeclee99
Hardly the same thing. The image you linked shows Iraqi's with their hands on the heads. Rumsfield is protesting the horrific nature of the video released by Al Jazeera televsion which clearly show mistreatment of our GI's at the hands of the Iraqi's.
Exactly the same thing. According to the Geneva Conventions, "...prisoners of war must at all times be protected, particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity." (Geneva conventions)
The fact that these prisoners were shown on CNN (and french tv, TV5) is a violation of the public curiosity part of the conventions.
I believe that containment would've worked with Iraq. I mean, it worked with Libya and Russia; both had insane dictators at one point or another, but both are now much less threatening than they once were.