Bush declares war with Iran

[ZZZzzzzzzz]

You want to point to the article in the Geneva convention that give the invading party the right to execute whomever they believe is acting as a human shield?

To illustrate how ridiculous this is, the following analogy:

Say a convicted killer and mass murder escapes from prison.

He flees to his home town, where his parents, his wife and children, and all his relatives and friends willingly give him sanctuary.

The police find out where he is, and they surround the house. They say over a bullhorn:

"Everyone surrender, or we will invade the house by force."

The family and friends of the convicted killer cry out, "we are not going to let you capture our son and friend, he was framed."

So the police proceed to bomb the house to Smithereens killing everyone, stating that the family is acting like human shields, and therefore they can be executed...

Oh, they then cite the article 4 of the Geneva Convention a precedent for their actions...

Quote from dddooo:

And another point that I constantly make is that the responsibility for the killing of human shields lies solely on those who use them as human shields. In fact this is not my point, this is the point the Fourth Geneva Convention makes. I know it pains you to hear it but its your Palestinian/Lebanese/Hamas/Hezbollah buddies who have the blood of innocent human shields on their hands.

 

[dddooo]

Quote from ZZZzzzzzzz:

You want to point to the article in the Geneva convention that give the invading party the right to execute whomever they believe is acting as a human shield?

Sure, no problem, you just can't help making a fool of yourself, can you?

Article 28: "The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations." (Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, August 12, 1949, 6 U.S.T. 3516, 75 U.N.T.S. 287, art. 28).

Article 4: Persons protected by the Convention are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals.

 

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Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

Exactly. The only thing they understand or respect is force. They have dicked us and the western world around for 28 years. They know all our talk means nothing and is just symbolic of our weakness.

There is no need to invade them, just as there was no need to invade Serbia. ZZZ and his crowd certainly didn't seem too concerned about civilian casualties then. We can severely degrade Iran's nuclear facilities, we can sink most of their navy, we can take out their gasoline refineries, we can destroy their electric grid and we can take all their TV and radio out of commission. If they continue to make trouble, then we can destroy most of their large mosques, hopefully with the imams inside. End of problem.

Yes. And once we get our act together and find an alternative form of energy to counter our dependence on oil, we can do the same to Saudi Arabia to impress on them how foolish it is to continue to provide funding for Al Qaeda and the like.

I'm so goddamn sick of being oil dependent. Give me a candidate who makes that his number one priority, sets a 2-year benchmark for the development of a primary alternative fuel with adequate funding, and subsequent mandatory conversion to that technology in the following two years for all new vehicles sold in the USA - and I'll vote for him (or her). Yes, that includes Hillary.

We developed the A-bomb in a couple of years in the early 40's. There have been decades of research on alternative fuels. It is possible.