Prisoner of Wha? - One

Prisoner of Wha? - One of the left's latest bleats - that Hussein is a POW, and that we had no business videotaping his head-lice exam according to the Geneva Convention.

Piffle. He's not a POW. He's a leader - and a horrific one at that.

The Geneva Convention was designed to prevent the horrors inflicted on prisoners of war before the twentieth century. The lot of the POW before the Convention was bad; the British slaughtered all non-ransomable French POWs at Agincourt rather than feed them; the British cooped American rebel prisoners in damp, rotting, vermin and disease-infested hulks of decommissioned navy ships, from which few emerged alive; other examples abound.

The Geneva Convention is not, as some liberals seem to think, a series of legalistic technicalities. It's a humanitarian agreement, designed to protect the soldiers and officers that fight wars between signatories from the humiliation, starvation, brutality and slaughter that were the POW's lot in earlier generations.

That Hussein is alive at all now is testament to the US adherence to the spirit as well as the letter of the convention. Beyond that? It's all legalistic claptrap.