Re: Ok to shoot unarmed/wounded prisoners?

From: Brainiac (Brainiac_member_at_newsguy.com)
Date: 11/26/04 

Date: 26 Nov 2004 09:16:38 -0800

In article <524db79f.0411252143.6c89bfc0@posting.google.com>, RH says...
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>Brainiac <Brainiac_member@newsguy.com> wrote in message
>news:<co2pa00th9@drn.newsguy.com>...
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>>Had the injured Iraqi pulled the pin on a grenade and killed himself & the GI no
>> doubt you'd be gloating how dumb GI's are....
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>So my fear that you might have a grenade in your pocket gives me the
>right to blow your ass away?

Given that the insurgent was firing from a mosque and thus ignoring the Geneva
convention then the answer has to be "yes"

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>Really bad behavior on the part of American soldiers wasn't unusual in
>Vietnam and it's not unusual now in Iraq. That which is captured on
>film and shared with the world is just the tip of an iceberg.
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>Some soldiers will be prosecuted and thrown in prison, but the real
>criminals, those shrewd bastards who are responsible for the needless
>deaths of thousands on both sides and millions of tons of
>needless/senseless suffering will just get "richer" and more powerful.
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>The Iraqi "insurgents" are defending their homeland against what they
>must see as immoral, invading terrorists. If we had a leader like
>Saddam and if another much more powerful nation had invaded us and
>treated us like we've treated them, the strongest amongst us would be
>resisting the invading/occupy forces and sleeping well knowing that
>they weren't bowing to the killers of innocent women and children -
>even if the odds seemed to be against them winning. Their resistance
>would be very honorable.
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>Most of the insurgents have been touched by the extreme ugliness of
>the US military forces, considering the estimated 100,000 dead Iraqis
>including women and children plus tens of thousand more who've been
>crippled for life and all those concrete homes and buildings that we
>have pulverized with our (extremely profitable two hundred thousand to
>1 million dollar apiece) bombs.
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>We need to face the truth that we had no business there in the first
>place, put down our guns, apologize, reimburse them tens of billions
>for the damage we've done, and get the hell out of there... (everyone
>including halliburton), the real criminals in the white house and
>pentagon, should be put in prison.
>

Had the insurgents not bothered with their campaign then the foreign troops
would be gone by now....

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