On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:21:12 -0400, Celejar wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:14:40 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [snip] > >> Actually, the war itself is a "war of aggression", which is a >> war crime. Other actions which may be war crimes: >> >> Torturing prisoners. >> Using white phosphorus against combatants and civilians >> (as opposed to its legal use for battlefield illumination). > > Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons [0] > clearly allows combat use of incendiary weapons against enemy forces > (i.e. to kill them, not just illuminate them), except in certain cases > involving civilians. It is also quite probable that such use isn't > banned by the agreements against chemical weapons; according to the > (London?) Times [1], the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical > Weapons agrees with the US administration that it isn't. C.f. Wikipedia > [2] and the references there.
..one argument against using Wikipedia here, is a not too recent case of somebody editing a page to suit his argument, and then make use of that edit to win his flame war, I understand it was spotted fairly quickly but I dunno the details. ;o) > Celejar > > [0] http://www.ccwtreaty.com/protocol3.html [1] > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article591095.ece [2] > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ White_phosphorus#Arms_control_status_and_military_regulations ..as a commander or combattant, you will here wanna make fully sure, that the full 4 Geneva Conventions does not in any way override your "right" to use these weapons, even against mercenaries, such as for _excessive_ collateral damage. ..nukes will often (but not always) be illegal for precisely that reason, _excessive_ collateral damage, "a little is ok", a few other kindsa weapons are banned for more, I'd say moralistic reasons, e.g. poison gas, dum-dum bullets etc, as are mercenaries. ..arguing how they _should_ be, is completely different to arguing against or for the language or the spirit in the Conventions. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
