As Army officers on duty in the war on terror, you will now face enemies who oppose and despise everything you know to be right, every notion of upright conduct and character, and every belief you consider worth fighting for and living for. Capture one of these killers, and he'll be quick to demand the protections of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution of the United States. Yet when they wage attacks or take captives, their delicate sensibilities seem to fall away. These are men who glorify murder and suicide. Their cruelty is not rebuked by human suffering, only fed by it. They have given themselves to an ideology that rejects tolerance, denies freedom of conscience, and demands that women be pushed to the margins of society. The terrorists are defined entirely by their hatreds, and they hate nothing more than the country you have volunteered to defend.
Your vice-president.
Yes, so for those of you who are going to go out and fight, do not be concerned with giving our enemies the comforts of the Geneva Convention or the rights under our Constitution if they apply. No, treat these savages savagely, for it is by acting like our enemy that we distinguish ourselves from our enemy.
Or something like that.
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