Under the Geneva Convention, for example, a POW is required only to provide name, rank, and serial number and cannot receive any benefits for cooperating.

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.

This war no longer has anything to do with knightly conduct or with the agreements of the Geneva Convention.

Nonetheless, Article 5 makes clear that if an Iraqi civilian who is not a member of the armed forces, has engaged in attacks on Coalition forces, the Geneva Convention permits the use of more coercive interrogation approaches to prevent future attacks.

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

While there may be a number of similarities to what the Geneva Convention describes, that's not a category that we have stated publicly at this point, ... Whether that changes over time needs to be seen.