Kendall-Smith is innocent.
Just to hope that all of you out there are keeping with the Kendall Smith case. The 'judge' has decided that he is not allowed to call his defence witnesses. This is an absolute travesty of a court case and if he is found guilty then there must be an appeal to the court of human rights.
Let us just accept, which is difficult for me, that the war was in fact legal. This I do not agree with but let us get it out of the way for arguments sake. Now, even if the war was legal, and the occupation is legal, for reasons which I do not agree with, then surely everyone must agree that the actions by some of the troops , that is in the execution of the occupation is, by the very actions taken, are most definitely illegal. How many civilians have been murdered. Are there any records kept. Research has shown that, on there return from a tour of duty, 27% of American troops have either been involved in, or witnessed, shootings of civilians by American troops. How many of these have been investigated. we really must start to see that when our troops do come home that they will not be able to hide behind rules of engagement which involve them 'accepting orders'. When the nazis were tried, and some executed, at the end of WWII their defence of 'I was only accepting orders' was not a justifiable defence. Furthermore, according to the law we are no longer at war anyway. The war was won. Accordingly, you will find that our troops and the troops of other nations are now more or less just confined to barracks. There has been agreement with the local militia that as long as they stick to agreed areas then no action will be taken against them. Hence, no injuries and no deaths. What exactly are we doing out there. Oh yes that right we are training the local militias to kill each other because there is not civil war its just sectarian fiolence between various groups. Kendall Smith is innocent.
Let us just accept, which is difficult for me, that the war was in fact legal. This I do not agree with but let us get it out of the way for arguments sake. Now, even if the war was legal, and the occupation is legal, for reasons which I do not agree with, then surely everyone must agree that the actions by some of the troops , that is in the execution of the occupation is, by the very actions taken, are most definitely illegal. How many civilians have been murdered. Are there any records kept. Research has shown that, on there return from a tour of duty, 27% of American troops have either been involved in, or witnessed, shootings of civilians by American troops. How many of these have been investigated. we really must start to see that when our troops do come home that they will not be able to hide behind rules of engagement which involve them 'accepting orders'. When the nazis were tried, and some executed, at the end of WWII their defence of 'I was only accepting orders' was not a justifiable defence. Furthermore, according to the law we are no longer at war anyway. The war was won. Accordingly, you will find that our troops and the troops of other nations are now more or less just confined to barracks. There has been agreement with the local militia that as long as they stick to agreed areas then no action will be taken against them. Hence, no injuries and no deaths. What exactly are we doing out there. Oh yes that right we are training the local militias to kill each other because there is not civil war its just sectarian fiolence between various groups. Kendall Smith is innocent.
posted by Catch22 at 2:24 AM
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