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If I'm not mistaken, my professor once told me that if a nation decided to bomb a facility being "protected" by a human chain, all human rights violations and breaches of international law would fall on the hands of the nation being bombed...

Is that true?

125 posted on 01/22/2006 11:15:22 AM PST by cdbull23 ("If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back." - Homer on what's good to drink.)
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To: cdbull23

Yes, that is basically correct.


130 posted on 01/22/2006 11:17:01 AM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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To: cdbull23

PS. So long as the facility to be bombed was itself a legitimate target.


131 posted on 01/22/2006 11:17:29 AM PST by AntiGuv (™)
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134 posted on 01/22/2006 11:18:52 AM PST by blogblogginaway (..)
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To: cdbull23

No, now is the time to strike the Iranian leadership.


Decapitate those driving their nuclear ambitions.


135 posted on 01/22/2006 11:19:04 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (9-11 is your Peace Dividend)
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To: cdbull23

"If I'm not mistaken, my professor once told me that if a nation decided to bomb a facility being "protected" by a human chain, all human rights violations and breaches of international law would fall on the hands of the nation being bombed...
Is that true?"




It is true, in principle at least. However, that does not guarantee that all will agree. I consider it very unlikely that nuclear weapons will be used at all against Iran, nor do I believe that these children will be there when Israel takes out this facility.

Israel is the only nation in the region with a real Air Force. They can attack this facility when they wish, with virtual impunity. They will do it in a surgical fashion, destroying whatever is necessary to stop Iran's development of nuclear capability.

Once they do that, there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth from the Muslim countries in the region, and that will be that.

OTOH, if Israel were to use nuclear armaments to attack this facility, it would be attacked at once by all its neighbors, not by air by by wave after wave of personnel. Israel knows all of this, and will act accordingly.

Those calling for the use of nuclear arms are being ridiculous. They are not appropriate for the threat, nor are they necessary.


164 posted on 01/22/2006 11:28:08 AM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: cdbull23
my professor once told me that if a nation decided to bomb a facility being "protected" by a human chain, all human rights violations and breaches of international law would fall on the hands of the nation being bombed...

Hmmm. Was this during the Clinton administration? Rules for Democrats are different. President Bush would be held to another standard.

210 posted on 01/22/2006 11:54:30 AM PST by Graymatter
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