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2007-05-12 Iraq

US Medical Flights Take Iraqi Insurgents

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-05-12 02:46|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Jihadists are not signatories to the Geneva Convention and as such have no rights under it. Let them bleed to death on the battlefield.

Posted by RWV 2007-05-12 12:37|| 2007-05-12 12:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Agreed, RWV.

The emergency care for the prisoners falls under the long-standing wartime codes of the Geneva Conventions.

"We are required under the Geneva Convention to rescue the enemy, and we give them better care than our soldiers could ever expect from al-Qaida in Iraq," said U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver.

Under the Geneva Conventions, the medevac crews can only carry rifles and handguns for their own protection - not the kind of powerful machine guns that normally sit in the two open windows on either side of a Black Hawk.

What is all this bullshit about the GC? They simply DO NOT apply to those who violate them without a second thought. Terrorists need to be offed as swiftly and effeciently as possible. As to interrogating them:

Petraeus' memo followed a Pentagon survey that found many U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq would support torture in certain cases and would not report a comrade for killing or wounding civilians.

Gruesome as it may sound, our soldiers have the right idea. They know what fate awaits them at the hands of these monsters. We must be just as brutal with these remorseless thugs. Nothing but stone cold brutality will get us anywhere with these turds on legs.

I wish we had battle lasers that would cut these bastards in half in a single swipe. I want our troops taking the field with weapons so vicious that terrorists shit their pants at the thought of engaging them. CCLAW laser blinding systems, microwave at-distance roasting beams, I care not. Terrorists deserve nothing but the heel of our collective military boot grinding them into a bloody paste.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-05-12 14:31|| 2007-05-12 14:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Dust off does get them into the heliocopter tho...

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-05-12 15:59|| 2007-05-12 15:59|| Front Page Top

#4 How they forget that after Malmedy, the troops didn't take too many prisoners if they thought the troops were SS. Don't recall too many investigations or courts martial over the point.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-05-12 15:59|| 2007-05-12 15:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Why the hell are we extending GC protections to ILLEGAL-COMBATANTS? The foot soldiers should be summarily executed (publically with full disclosure of the reason, the fact that they are considered ILLEGAL COMBATANTS under the Geneva Conventsions and the reason they are considered such). The leaders should be wrung dry (by any means necessary) and then publically executed.

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-05-12 20:25|| 2007-05-12 20:25|| Front Page Top

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