HUH? He went to war and was unaware of the Geneva Convention? As an officer?
Vets...how & when is the Geneva Convention introduced in ine's military service?
The very first mention of the Geneva and Hague Conventions occurs in Basic Training. Every service member get periodic re-briefings, but in particular, the Rules of Engagement are stated prior to entering any hostile zone.
Given the left's propensity for word parsing, perhaps the senator is confused because these briefings are also know as the "Laws of Land Warfare". Moreover, EVERY service member entering RVN received a wallet-sized card with the basics of the Conventions printed on it - just in case one forgot that one was not supposed to shoot civilians in the back...
Your on to something here. Not only was he a trained officer in the Naval Reserve Officers Training he was a Yale Grad who was a war protester?? How can he graduate Yale during Vietnam and not know about the Geneva Convention or the Nuremburg Trials?? He probably wrote papers on them. He never committed atrocities w/o knowing they were wrong.
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