Rights Lawyers See Possibility of a War Crime In Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/13/international/middleeast/13legal.html

WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 - Human rights experts said Friday that American soldiers might have committed a war crime on Thursday when they sent fleeing Iraqi civilians back into Falluja.

Citing several articles of the Geneva Conventions, the experts said recognized laws of war require military forces to protect civilians as refugees and forbid returning them to a combat zone.

"This is highly problematical conduct in terms of exposing people to grave danger by returning them to an area where fighting is going on," said Jordan Paust, a law professor at the University of Houston and a former Army prosecutor.

James Ross, senior legal adviser to Human Rights Watch, said, "If that's what happened, it would be a war crime."

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[tk2kewl]

1. ya think? /nt

[leftchick]

2. "A" war crime???

omg.... too many war crimes to list here... :puke:

[jasmeel]

3. Are they aware that the Geneva convention is "quaint"?

:grr:

[stopbush]

4. But...but...but...we're God's chosen warriors. We do no wrong, EVER!

And after Abu Gahrib - which was just frat boys blowing off steam - our warriors all got extra training in the Geneva Conventions...right?

This is just the elite furrin liberals having it both ways. They wouldn't be shouting "war crimes" if we blew these civvies out of existence from 15,000 feet with one of our glorious MOABs.

[dkofos]

7. Did they get that extra training in the Geneva Convention

from Alberto Gonzalez??

[eleonora]

5. "might"?

It stinks of operation butchery

[dkofos]

6. The whole freakin war is a war crime

bUSH TO THE HAIG

[Gman]

8. War crimes? How silly!

Nothing to see here... Move along, now.

[struggle4progress]

9. kick

:kick:

[natrat]

10. better get alberto on it

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. The churches supported Hitler too.... nothing unusual here... n/t

[NNN0LHI]

12. Say it ain't so

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.angelfire.com/hi2/gracebelievers/hitler_romancatholic.htm&h=321&w=500&sz=110&tbnid=RGfyqvpGbZsJ:&tbnh=80&tbnw=126&start=2&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhitler%252Bcatholic%2Bbishops%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG

[zmdem]

13. Great, another winning issue for Democrats

in 2008: Our GI's are war criminals.

[NNN0LHI]

14. When did Human Rights Watch become part of the Democratic party?

And are you suggesting that Democrats should ignore human rights to win the next election? Because if you are you can keep "your" Democratic party.

Don