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mekannik
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Does it strike anyone else as funny that our military powers and allies must follow the rules below - even though the Taliban have exhibited no intention of doing the same?
So when more of our service men & women come home in body bags or with deformities from fighting in this war - at least the bleeding heart liberals can offer them solace for fighting humanely against savages.
This was on the CNN.com page attached to an article discussing the Taliban's tactaics.
Targets
-- Naval forces may not bombard undefended ports, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings. Naval forces may target ships of war in harbor, military works, military, arms depots or workshops that a hostile fleet or army could use.
-- Commanders must take necessary measures to safeguard sacred edifices, buildings used for artistic, scientific, or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick or wounded are collected, unless they are being used for military purposes.
-- Pillaging of a town or place, even when taken by storm, is forbidden.
-- Combatants, or military personnel, are legitimate targets. Exceptions include medical personnel, chaplains, prisoners of war, wounded and sick, shipwrecked and parachutists abandoning disabled aircraft.
Weapons
:
-- Poisons, choking agents, poisoned arms, gases and biological weapons are forbidden
-- Torpedoes must become harmless when they have missed their target
-- At the close of war, powers must do the utmost to remove water mines
-- Use of arms or projectiles that cause unnecessary harm are prohibited.
People
-- Personal property of prisoners of war remains their own except arms, horses and military papers. Captors must treat them humanely.
-- Prisoners of war must give their true name and rank.
-- At the end of war, the repatriation of prisoners of war shall take place as speedily as possible.
-- Confiscation of personal property is prohibited.
-- Capturing forces cannot force the population of occupied territory into military operations against their own country.
-- Victors cannot force the population of occupied territory to take an oath to a hostile power.
-- Captors must respect family honors, rights and religious convictions.
-- Civilians and surrendering military personnel may not be killed, tortured, mutilated, executed, degraded or humiliated.
-- Captors must collect and care for the wounded and sick.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/11/15/ret.war.law/index.html
So when more of our service men & women come home in body bags or with deformities from fighting in this war - at least the bleeding heart liberals can offer them solace for fighting humanely against savages.
This was on the CNN.com page attached to an article discussing the Taliban's tactaics.
Targets
-- Naval forces may not bombard undefended ports, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings. Naval forces may target ships of war in harbor, military works, military, arms depots or workshops that a hostile fleet or army could use.
-- Commanders must take necessary measures to safeguard sacred edifices, buildings used for artistic, scientific, or charitable purposes, historic monuments, hospitals and places where the sick or wounded are collected, unless they are being used for military purposes.
-- Pillaging of a town or place, even when taken by storm, is forbidden.
-- Combatants, or military personnel, are legitimate targets. Exceptions include medical personnel, chaplains, prisoners of war, wounded and sick, shipwrecked and parachutists abandoning disabled aircraft.
Weapons
:
-- Poisons, choking agents, poisoned arms, gases and biological weapons are forbidden
-- Torpedoes must become harmless when they have missed their target
-- At the close of war, powers must do the utmost to remove water mines
-- Use of arms or projectiles that cause unnecessary harm are prohibited.
People
-- Personal property of prisoners of war remains their own except arms, horses and military papers. Captors must treat them humanely.
-- Prisoners of war must give their true name and rank.
-- At the end of war, the repatriation of prisoners of war shall take place as speedily as possible.
-- Confiscation of personal property is prohibited.
-- Capturing forces cannot force the population of occupied territory into military operations against their own country.
-- Victors cannot force the population of occupied territory to take an oath to a hostile power.
-- Captors must respect family honors, rights and religious convictions.
-- Civilians and surrendering military personnel may not be killed, tortured, mutilated, executed, degraded or humiliated.
-- Captors must collect and care for the wounded and sick.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/11/15/ret.war.law/index.html
