80. Individuals Not of Armed Forces Who Engage in Hostilities Persons, such as guerrillas and partisans, who take up arms and commit hostile acts without having complied with the conditions prescribed by the laws of war for recognition as belligerents (see GPW, art. 4; par. 61 herein), are, when captured by the injured party, not entitled to be treated as prisoners of war and may be tried and sentenced to execution or imprisonment.
81. Individuals Not of Armed Forces Who Commit Hostile Acts Persons who, without having complied with the conditions prescribed by the laws of war for recognition as belligerents (see GPW, art. 4; par. 61 herein), commit hostile acts about or behind the lines of the enemy are not to be treated as prisoners of war and may be tried and sentenced to execution or imprisonment. Such acts include, but are not limited to, sabotage, destruction of communications facilities, intentional misleading of troops by guides, liberation of prisoners of war, and other acts not falling within Articles 104 and 106 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and Article 29 of the Hague Regulations.
82. Penalties for the Foregoing Persons in the foregoing categories who have attempted, committed, or conspired to commit hostile or belligerent acts are subject to the extreme penalty of death because of the danger inherent in their conduct. Lesser penalties may, however, be imposed.
It's the law as defined by the Geneva Conventions. Abuse of a corpse is definitely a hostile act, it is outside the laws of war, and it is a criminal offense under Iraqi, Islamic, and International law. This provides a warrant for rounding up the perps, sorting out the most guilty, and shooting them.
Let it be done, and let the dopers and drunks* at Al Reuters and CNN scream to the high heavens. Mobs like this are incited by the fantastic atrocity propaganda emanating from the Arab media, like the Baghdad rag that was shut down a few days ago. These inciters have the full support and protection of the western media and their post 60s re-definition of "free speech."
It is time to bring back the doctrine of "fire in a crowded theatre", defy the left-monopoly media and their pious dope-culture "ethics" and attack this at its roots.
*I think it's past time to start describing these arrogant media-monopolist vermin as they really are.
Quick. Run for some office. So I can vote for you. Brilliant. Very good.
You highlight just how endemically and irretrievably we Americans are handcuffed by our own sense of Judeo-Christian Civilized Behavior and Unlimited Patience & Benevolence...when dealing with such ethics-void ANIMALS around us who will kill, barbeque, and string up even MORE of our fellow Americans over the next few months and perhaps years in Iraq if it is allowed to go on like this and we only have a pussy, Ivy League, politically-correct, State Department-palatable response coming out of the White House and Pentagon bureaucrats.