[Ispy4u]

You would be smart to remember your training on the Law of War.

Your actions in this manner could cause some of your buddies, if captured, to be tortured and executed.

I'm no REMF either, SSG US Army.

[Steely Glint]

"You would be smart to remember your training on the Law of War. Your actions in this manner could cause some of your buddies, if captured, to be tortured and executed."

My buddies, when captured, WERE tortured and executed. We were ambushed and fired at by people who then dropped their weapons and blended in with the civilian population. Regardless, I fought fairly and atrocity-free and followed the Laws of War. In middle age, I look back and wish that I had not done so...I wish that I had taken it to them instead.

The scum we are fighting today also routinely torture and execute their captives. They have never even heard of the Laws of War; heck, the scum blew up a Red Cross unit with a bomb placed in an ambulance the other day.

IMO we should throw the Laws of War in the trash bin and hurt them as badly as we can. Otherwise we end up in the realm of

http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_belmontclub_archive.html#106401071003484059

[armyboy]

The Iraqis don't know the 1st thing about the "Laws of War" they already torture and kill POW's the blew up a Red Cross center. so I say get info that save our soldiers lives by ANY means nessessary.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

googling for "the way it was" I found this fifty-year-old article. It reads like something from today with its documentation of duplicity by liberals and its accusing the New York Times "of suppressing all the news which does not fit." I had heard of Malmedy but I did not know the nature of the mistreatment of Germany prisoners -- not Nazi war criminals -- by U.S. forces after the war.

MALMEDY and McCARTHY Printed in the AMERICAN MERCURY, November 1954, By Freda Utley.

How much we have changed. Is it no wonder that W.W.II was the last clear victory? Iraq is not settled. As in Vietnam the political quagmire at home is sucking victory into the pool of feces created by the war's (and America's?) opponents.

German army teen-age enlisted men and young non-commissioned officers were being "convicted" and hanged by U.S. occupying forces following the war. Congressman (at the time) Joe McCarthy along with other Congressmen "relying upon information given by such irreproachable Americans as Lt. Colonel Willis P. Everett, and by prominent religious leaders" investigated.

Today a career U.S. Army officer discharges a weapon in the presence of a prisoner and it hits the fan. No wonder they were the "greatness generation." They could tell the difference.

I have no combat experience so I'll defer to those who have: is it true as intimated elsewhere that if we are "nice" to prisoners then captured Americans will get "nice" treatment? I have no combat experience but I can read and I believe the answer is, NO!