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Re: OT: sponge burning!



..reposting, last try was lost in gmane's auth queue.

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:57:02 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in
[🔎] 20070319225702.GF31767@santiago.connexer.com:

> On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:18:40PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:47:49 -0700, Paul wrote in message
>> <[🔎] 12791738.FNnmshGOLz@ursa-major.ursine.ca>:
>> 
>> > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in Article
>> > <[🔎] 20070319023612.GA14000@santiago.connexer.com> posted to
>> > gmane.linux.debian.user:
>> > 
>> > > I don't suppose you have ever served in the U.S. military, have
>> > > you?
>> 
>> ..no, I drew a firm line at war crime.  If you want me serving for the
> 
> Fascinating.  So toppling a dictator who killed tens of thousands to
> hundreds of thousands of people is a war crime?

..no, that _would_ have been legal under Articles 87 and 86 in Protocol 
Additional 1 of the Conventions.  Instead we got W's _flawed_ WMD story.

>> US, you will first have to either surrender, or, fight in full
>> compliance to both the full 4 Geneva Conventions and to Sharia
>> whereever
> 
> I see, and blowing up innocent women and children is *not* a war crime!

..BS, you know it is.

>> Sharia provides a stricter protection for civilians, POW, internees,
>> shipwrecked and the wounded than the full 4 Geneva Convention.
>> 
>> ..that means you will arrest, try and hang Sissy Boy George.  And crew.
>> 
> Actually, you arrest and try every congressional representative who
> voted to authorize the military action in Iraq.  

..if they authorized war crimes, yes.  I understood however Congress 
Authorized War, not war Crime?

> Of course, your lack of
> knowledge concerning politics and government is not surprising.

..my understanding of US Gov details is not relevant to this war, your 
understanding and application of the full 4 Geneva Conventions in this 
war, _is_, if you're an US or NATO or Taliban serviceman.

>> > > There is not one military person currently serving in Iraq who did
>> > > not volunteer.  Please get over yourself.
>> > 
>> > I'm not sure how voluntary it truly is, given that in practice the
>> > military is a last resort when the only other choice is homelessness
>> > and starvation...
>> 
>> ..ach, so keine "draft" bedeutet "volonteering"?  Oder "Freiwillige"?
>> Wie der Adolf's Söldner der die Juden in Auchwitz vergasst hatten?
>> 
> *plonk*

..eh, what are we trying to argue here?  ;o)

> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto
>

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o)
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.



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