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Oh, okay... Then perhaps we should stop talking about whether they should have been shot or not. They were soldiers, they fought until the end, and they were killed in combat. Good for us.
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My, what a big straw man you have there. If you point is true, then perhaps we should just pull out the nuclear bombs and kill everyone on the planet, you war-monger!!!! (See, I can build a good straw man too.)
I was responding to Mikey Chalupa who said:
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American soldiers, or the LEGAL ARMED COMBATANTS in any conflict, are protected from what the Iraqis did by the Geneva convention. Saddam's kids are not armed combatants.
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So, if you think they were soldiers, then you disagree with MikeyChalupa, agree with me, and therefore the Geneva convention applies, just as it did when Iraq displayed American bodies for political gain, and the USA was in violation of the geneva convention.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't have killed them, and I'm not saying that they weren't bad guys. I'm just saying what's good for the goose is good for the gander, and this is another case of the Bush Administration citing international law in one instance and ignoring it when it is convenient for them.