Posted on 05/18/2022 11:27:03 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
there is no limit to the idiocy of the US Congress.............
Well, at least this time the dying isn’t unilateral, since I doubt it could have been avoided.
“Was anyone convicted and sent to prison? I mean Afghan prison.”
Did anyone bring charges in a recognized court with jurisdiction? No. So, absent that, how the hell can one be convicted, much less sent to prison?
Why it didn’t take place?
UN confirmed 3,404 civilians had been killed in the conflict. Of the civilian deaths, 312 were foreigners: 298 passengers and crew of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, 11 Russian journalists, an Italian journalist, one Russian civilian killed in cross-border shelling and a Lithuanian diplomat.
Most of these are not due to “Ukrainian shelling since 2014”.
That is a lie.
There were deaths on both sides and the bulk of deaths were in 2014-2015
The Pentagon lied about what the drone strike had actually hit until video evidence emerged showing otherwise. At that point, the moral value of “admitting it” doesn’t really amount to much.
“Why it didn’t take place?”
A trial? Never heard that one did. Link please.
Just “say no.” This is a recipe for a giant mess.
We send boys all over the world, give them just a little instruction and support. Then, civilians who were safe abed when the inevitable war events happen, hold them accountable.
Since the Nuremberg Trials of those Nazis that Committed War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, your Nazi excuse of "I Was Only Following Orders" is no longer accepted, and you will be Prosecuted no matter how long it takes or whom ultimately Prosecutes your Crime.
Americans who burned to death about 140,000 Japanese in one night and killed 130,000 Germans in Dresden enjoyed many years of US veteran benefits.
Their supreme commander FDR has a monument in our nation’s capital and is honored on every dime minted.
nope! nope! nope!
‘they’ can’t touch ‘us’, so ‘we’ make the rules to touch ‘them’???!!
somebody needs a nice big chocolate exlax bar!!
Fine, you and everyone involved still get punished for it.
This is just stupid.
I’m not supporting Russia, at all. Nor any tyrant.
But a crime in another country between citizens of other countries is none of the USA’s business.
Should the USA also start handing out speeding tickets in Paris?
Maybe giving tickets to 18 years drinking in England?
It’s completely asinine and presumptuous to deign to think the USA (or any other country) has the right to police what goes on in another country, between citizens of other countries.
In the end it will be jut another case of the US sticking it’s nose in business that it doesn’t belong in.
And we will pay biions for the honor.
The crazy thing is that, per this same NY Times article, referencing the draft bill: the planned expansion of the 1996 War Crimes Act would ALSO eliminate any statute of limitations on war crimes.
“Since the Nuremberg Trials of those Nazis that Committed War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, your Nazi excuse of “I Was Only Following Orders” is no longer accepted, and you will be Prosecuted no matter how long it takes or whom ultimately Prosecutes your Crime.”
WTF are you babbling about? MY “Nazi excuse?”
Go back to your basement and assemble your Revell plastic boats, and don’t inhale the glue this time.
“Fine, you and everyone involved still get punished for it.”
I assume by your using the word “you,” that you are using that in the generic sense. Or, do you think I was involved in that operation? Is that why you called me a Nazi on the previous post?
It used to be. But the new administration says that everyone who lives outside the border and wants to come in may do so. And when they cross the border they are American. So this merely extends jurisdiction to those who will become Americans once they cross the border. And since everyone wants to come to America it follows that for any crime between two soon to be Americans, American courts should have jurisdiction.
(Yes, this is idiotic nonsense. But I will guarantee that if you ran this line of reasoning past all the Democrats in congress, the majority would agree that the logic is just fine.)
It has yet to be determined whether the “mass graves” (if they exist) were the result of Russian atrocities or the Ukrainians using the fog of war to eliminate their internal enemies. Or both.
What would happen, 10 years from now if a Russian emigrates to the U.S. and lies on his visa application. Then, the U.S. is able to document that this Russian was, in fact, a war criminal who murdered innocent civilians in the Ukrainian war.
Under current U.S. law, the only punishment is deportation back to Russia.
IMHO the punishment for lying on a visa application should be equal to the crime being lied about. Lie about the war crime of murdering civilians should put them in a supermax for about 50 years.
Here's a NY Times link where a guard from a German concentration was deported to Germany in February 2021.
Tennessee Man Who Served as Nazi Camp Guard Is Deported to Germany
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