Nine Reasons to Investigate War Crimes Now

The Nation ^ | July 18, 2008 | Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith

[Chesterbelloc]

I’ve been knocked senseless by your huge block of text!

[Viking2002]

Damn, DW, that's one zot I wouldn't want to be on the business end of. LOL

[rottndog]

Sadly...IATZ!

[TASMANIANRED]

The nation....Left arm of commie propaganda.

I’d sooner read skid marks.

[Paul Heinzman]

More and more, the first thing I do with these ZOTs is come in and search for "Allegra" because your replies are so dang funny.

I haven't said it in a while, so thank you for your service and God bless you.

[Kitty Mittens]

[Lost Dutchman]

I missed the ZOT but wanted to show off my newest ZOT pic.

[rabscuttle385]

IATZ...but then again, right now, I’m in Alberta, where some girls are cute, the malls are one-of-a-kind, it’s still light until 10 at night, and sales taxes are obscene.

[Allegra]

LOL - I love threads like this.

I haven't said it in a while, so thank you for your service and God bless you.

Thank you and it's my pleasure.

I just wish they'd turn down the furnace a little. ;-)

[IYellAtMyTV]

I couldn"t give a rats ass.

Oh, wait! I can!

[BIGLOOK]

Putting women’s underpants on a prisoner’s head isn’t torture.

Right! (And we'll leave at that.)

We're dealing with separate cultures and systems of laws.....separated by centuries. We're coming to a breaking point in the UCMJ and the treatment of those captured on the battlefield. It is quickly becoming a liability to take them alive.

[SatinDoll]

I believe we took them alive in Afghanistan in the belief we could gain useful intelligence. Instead, what a nightmare this has become.

[BIGLOOK]

We did gain intel....the hard way. The detainees want to lawyer up, the courts want to grant them rights and the Dems want to allow them access to the US. More US troops have faced a Courts Martial than any of the combatants. The sensible solution is to send them back to the point of capture and let the locals there dispense justice.

[SatinDoll]

” The sensible solution is to send them back to the point of capture and let the locals there dispense justice. “

Frankly I prefer “mopping up” out in the field so you don’t lug around any foreign baggage. But giving them back to Afghnistan or countries of origin would be preferred. Much preferred to having revisionist Judges decide that how we’ve dealt with illegal combatants (non-uniformed and caught on the field of battle or in the act of sabotage/spying) for the past 230 years is a violation of their civil rights.

I want to shut down the opportunities these revisionist Judges are using to subvert our Constitution.

[BIGLOOK]

Here's the problem, one that has occurred previously. The combatants are multi-national mercenaries. If mercs are returned to their countries of origin, nothing happens to them. They're released. Turning them over to Afghanistan also creates a locally political problem if the national Afghani government can't control jurisdiction in the capture areas and just shoot ‘em on Friday night.

No Quarter works but only if the press isn't present.

The Sandman is here, Doll and I'm off to the rack. Aloha po

[SmithL]

Newbie with a Vanity