[kj] This ought to send Jaz off on a rampage

[Phillipps Marc]

>> Today's fun story from Iraq involved troops kidnapping Iraqi officers
wives
>> and children until they hand themselves in . . . 

>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54345-2003Jul27.html

Following on from this, I've done a bit of digging around . . . 

Geneva convention IV (article 31-34)

"Art. 31. No physical or moral coercion shall be exercised against protected
persons, in particular to obtain information from them or from third
parties.

Art. 32. The High Contracting Parties specifically agree that each of them
is prohibited from taking any measure of such a character as to cause the
physical suffering or extermination of protected persons in their hands.
This prohibition applies not only to murder, torture, corporal punishments,
mutilation and medical or scientific experiments not necessitated by the
medical treatment of a protected person, but also to any other measures of
brutality whether applied by civilian or military agents.

Art. 33. No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has
not personally committed. Collective penalties and likewise all measures of
intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited.

Pillage is prohibited.

Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited.

Art. 34. The taking of hostages is prohibited. "

Say's it all really . . . 

Marc. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	PRAEst76 [SMTP:praest76___@dsl.pipex.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, July 29, 2003 4:47 PM
> To:	Phillipps Marc
> Subject:	Re: [kj] This ought to send Jaz off on a rampage
> 
> Phillipps Marc sed...
> 
> >>You do realise he'll get a second term?
> 
> > I'm afraid so . . . . it's like a bad dream isn't it . .
> 
> I just see it getting worse. There is no such thing as 'backing down'
> in the Bush administrations lexicon. They want to win here regardless
> of the cost.
> 
> > Today's fun story from Iraq involved troops kidnapping Iraqi officers
> wives
> > and children until they hand themselves in . . . 
> 
> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54345-2003Jul27.html
> 
> > It beggars belief doesn't it
> 
> In all honesty there is little that would surprise me.
> 
> I dunno, when I hear of stuff like this I just think they've forgotten
> they are i na foreign country. They are the invaders, not the iraqis.
> All objectivity is being lost there. and every day that goes by I
> just see it getting worse. What is the current death rate? 2 US
> marines per day, more at the weekends? they plan to be there for
> another year? That's what? 700 dead US marines by this time next year?
> They could stop that by killing all the Iraqis. Or kill enough of them
> to put the fear of god into them.
> 
> I'd like to see some of the main guys of the Bush administration down
> on the ground there. Putting their rhetoric into action and proving to
> the moral starved US troops that they actually give a flying fuck
> what happens to them. because right now I don't think the Bush
> administration sees the dead US troops as anything more than
> statistics.
> 
> Either that or get out of Iraq, because this whole thing is just going
> to escalate to a point where someone with power in the US will see the
> 'turning the whole desert into a big sheet of glass' option as viable
> and then it really will be world war three.
> 
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