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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-01-06 08:52 AM
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23. No dear I don't
I know that these things happen in war, even with precision munitions. By the way, been there done that... combat that is. Hell I was shot at in a perfectly marked red cross ambulance... so don't give me this shit. Fact is you have not addressed the fact that I'd rather have International Lawyers looking at this and the fact that one side has chosen, against all conventions of war, to place personnel and assets among civilians, placing saith civilians at risk. If it was the IDF doing it, I'd be criticizing them for the same thing. They are not the good guys, and I am not having a morality argument here, whether they are right or wrong, by the way. I am using the cold logic of International Law as it pertains how you loose neutrality. Unfortunately parking an AA batettery in downtown Kuwait, or downtown Haifa, or downtown Beirut, takes away any neutrality that area had from any military attack, since that battery is of military value.

It is not my fault that most folks have read the conventions in a cursory manner and have no idea how to interpret them. I spent 10 years wearing a Red Cross Uniform, and not the American Red Cross either (One national society that has no clue about them either.) So go tell that to somebody without a clue.
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