Re: OT: sponge burning!
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:21:12 -0400, Celejar wrote in
[🔎] 20070328182112.a494494f.celejar@gmail.com:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:14:40 -0400 (EDT) judd@wadsworth.org wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> Actually, the war itself is a "war of aggression", which is a
>> war crime. Other actions which may be war crimes:
>>
>> Torturing prisoners.
>> Using white phosphorus against combatants and civilians
>> (as opposed to its legal use for battlefield illumination).
>
> Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons [0]
> clearly allows combat use of incendiary weapons against enemy forces
> (i.e. to kill them, not just illuminate them), except in certain cases
> involving civilians. It is also quite probable that such use isn't
> banned by the agreements against chemical weapons; according to the
> (London?) Times [1], the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical
> Weapons agrees with the US administration that it isn't. C.f. Wikipedia
> [2] and the references there.
..one argument against using Wikipedia here, is a not too recent case of
somebody editing a page to suit his argument, and then make use of that
edit to win his flame war, I understand it was spotted fairly quickly but
I dunno the details. ;o)
> Celejar
>
> [0] http://www.ccwtreaty.com/protocol3.html [1]
> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article591095.ece [2]
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
White_phosphorus#Arms_control_status_and_military_regulations
..as a commander or combattant, you will here wanna make fully sure, that
the full 4 Geneva Conventions does not in any way override your "right"
to use these weapons, even against mercenaries, such as for _excessive_
collateral damage.
..nukes will often (but not always) be illegal for precisely that reason,
_excessive_ collateral damage, "a little is ok", a few other kindsa
weapons are banned for more, I'd say moralistic reasons, e.g. poison gas,
dum-dum bullets etc, as are mercenaries.
..arguing how they _should_ be, is completely different to arguing
against or for the language or the spirit in the Conventions. ;o)
--
..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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