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Thread #69284   Message #1180927
Posted By: beardedbruce
08-May-04 - 03:29 AM
Thread Name: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
Subject: RE: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
Let me see... A number of US troops are charged for actions that are obviously improper conduct, at the least. The "world" demands that they be tried as war criminals, by an Iraqi court, since the crimes were against Iraqis...

According to the Geneva Conventions, it is also a war crime to

1. Intenmtionally target civilian populations

2. Use schools, hospitals or mosques as military headquarters, storage, or staging areas

3. Use marked abulances to transport weapons or troops ( other than the wounded.

So, we send the 20 or so US troops to the Arab world for trial, and they will turn over all the militias in Iraq, most of the Palestinians, and who else to us???

In time of war, a spy can be sumarily executed. This means that a non-uniformed combatant has a far different set of "rights" under the geneva Conventions than the uniformed soldier.