RE: killing the enemy is no atrocity
Posted by:
Dave McQueen
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Date: June 30, 2001 11:58AM
<HTML>Kurt
With respect you are speaking from your lower orifice.
I am a German Mountain Trooper and am in a transport to Norway or Greece and my ship is sunk\'and i am desperately trying to stay afloat and ditch anything heavy from weapons to boots and equipment\'then i would say clearly i am not a combatant at this moment of time.As my country and yours have signed the Geneva Convention i would hope that an @!#$ like yourself would not be in the first allied ship/plane to come along and break that convention(commit a warcrime).As i struggle desperately in the water to stay afloat i think the last thing on my mind would be killing an allied soldier/sailor as they are probably the last chance for survival i have.
There is clearly a difference between unarmed soldiers and soldiers with weapons and it\'s probably people like yourselves who make war such an unpleasant business.Off course the Iraqi army that got hammered on it\'s way back to Iraq from Kuwait even when the war was clearly lost was armed and had\'nt ditched their tanks or personal weapons and were driving in vehicles were it would be unknown if they have hand weapons or not\'so i have no problem with the way that was done\'but as soon as i can see the weapons out of the hands\'then as long as they don\'t pick it up again\'then they are POWS to be.
I don\'t even want to get into the whole warcrimes thing or who did what to what in the war\'and i have my own opinions on what was wrong or right\'but your totally wrong in your opinion.
By the way i have a quote from the convention for you
1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have LAID DOWN THEIR ARMS and those placed hors de combat by
sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely
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With respect you are speaking from your lower orifice.
I am a German Mountain Trooper and am in a transport to Norway or Greece and my ship is sunk\'and i am desperately trying to stay afloat and ditch anything heavy from weapons to boots and equipment\'then i would say clearly i am not a combatant at this moment of time.As my country and yours have signed the Geneva Convention i would hope that an @!#$ like yourself would not be in the first allied ship/plane to come along and break that convention(commit a warcrime).As i struggle desperately in the water to stay afloat i think the last thing on my mind would be killing an allied soldier/sailor as they are probably the last chance for survival i have.
There is clearly a difference between unarmed soldiers and soldiers with weapons and it\'s probably people like yourselves who make war such an unpleasant business.Off course the Iraqi army that got hammered on it\'s way back to Iraq from Kuwait even when the war was clearly lost was armed and had\'nt ditched their tanks or personal weapons and were driving in vehicles were it would be unknown if they have hand weapons or not\'so i have no problem with the way that was done\'but as soon as i can see the weapons out of the hands\'then as long as they don\'t pick it up again\'then they are POWS to be.
I don\'t even want to get into the whole warcrimes thing or who did what to what in the war\'and i have my own opinions on what was wrong or right\'but your totally wrong in your opinion.
By the way i have a quote from the convention for you
1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have LAID DOWN THEIR ARMS and those placed hors de combat by
sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely
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