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April 30, 2004
WTF?!?!?!??!
Officer: U.S. troops untrained in Geneva Convention.
The headline alone is a stunning indictment of our military. And indictment is the right word: whoever didn't see to it that those in our military are not properly trained in the Geneva Convention ought to loose his job...
The mere fact that Aljazeera has an actual US atrocity to yack about is going to cost American lives. The fact that our Troops will-- in ignorance-- violate the Geneva convention invalidates that convention as it applies to us by signatory countries. So it may well cost us military lives as well as civilian ones. Someone had damned well better loose their job over this...
Posted by Andrew at April 30, 2004 07:26 PM
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THAT was evident when the US Army took wives and daughters of some of Saddam's men hostage. Taking hostages is against the Geneva Conventions.
THAT was evident when they bulldozed an orchard in a village that had insurgents. Random community punishment is against the Geneva conventions.
Do we need more evidence that the US army needs more training?
I'd say not.
Scorpio
Eccentricity
Posted by: Scorpio at April 30, 2004 07:45 PM