Under the Geneva Conventions and customary law, it is a war crime to launch indiscriminate attacks affecting the civilian population or civilian objects in the knowledge that such attacks will cause excessive loss of life, injury to civilians, or damage to civilian objects Geneva Conventions, part IV, Article 48 The ...
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08-26-2006, 05:30 PM
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| Banned  Progressive Philadelphia, PA 
| US State Department investigating Israel for War Crimes Under the Geneva Conventions and customary law, it is a war crime to launch indiscriminate attacks affecting the civilian population or civilian objects in the knowledge that such attacks will cause excessive loss of life, injury to civilians, or damage to civilian objects Geneva Conventions, part IV, Article 48 The US is investigating whether Israel's use of American-made cluster bombs in Lebanon violated an agreement that the weapons not be used in populated areas, officials said yesterday. Unexploded "bomblets" from cluster munitions have emerged as the most lethal obstacle to the return of refugees to southern Lebanon after the month-long war between Israel and Hizbullah. The UN said the fist-sized bombs had been found in nearly 300 locations and about two-thirds were American-made. "We've heard the allegations that these munitions were used in Lebanon and we're looking into it," a state department spokesman said yesterday. Another official confirmed that the sale of cluster bombs was conditional on Israel using them only against military targets in the open, away from civilian areas. Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | US investigates whether Israel violated deal on cluster bombs Maybe the Israeli government will be hauled before a war crimes tribunal  | ||||
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08-26-2006, 06:15 PM
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| You poop from your mouth.  Populist
| Wouldn't be an issue if Hezbollah located its bases far away from civilians like Israel does. Nothing will come of this, don't worry. It was a voluntary agreement that both signatories violated. | ||||
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08-26-2006, 06:24 PM
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| You poop from your mouth. Populist
| "The presence of a protected person may not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations." Fourth Geneva Convention, Part III, Article 28. | ||||
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08-26-2006, 06:24 PM
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| Administrator  libertarian Oklahoma
| Originally Posted by archangel003 
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08-27-2006, 07:38 PM
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| Member  libertarian New York City, New York
| Originally Posted by Thorgrim
 oh wait | ||||
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08-27-2006, 08:42 PM
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| Banned  Conservative Government is another way to say Better Than You
| maybe we should rid the world of any government except for that governed by islamic radicals...that way the world would be at peace with itself being under a single islamic rule, and we could all be happy!!!!!! | ||||
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08-27-2006, 08:50 PM
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| You poop from your mouth. Populist
| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz Glory to Muhammad and the Global Caliphate! Allah Akbar!
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08-27-2006, 08:52 PM
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| Banned Progressive Philadelphia, PA
| Originally Posted by archangel003 What's funny is that the same line "God is Great" was popular amongst Christians for hundreds of years, infact it wouldn't be that hard in our 2000 years of civilization to find a widespread movement a few scores ago calling for "Glory to Jesus Christ and the Global Christendom! God is Great!"
You think you are mocking others but you are really mocking yourself... | ||||
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08-27-2006, 08:54 PM
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| Banned Conservative Government is another way to say Better Than You
| Originally Posted by Thorgrim this reminds me of what we said in kindergarten...i know you are but what am i!
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08-27-2006, 08:56 PM
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| You poop from your mouth. Populist
| Maybe I would be mocking myself if I were a christian. Plz try again. | ||||
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08-27-2006, 08:59 PM
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| Banned Progressive Philadelphia, PA
| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz No its actually a mature point, its pretty dumb to blame one side for something your own side has already done
It would be like us laughing at Mexico because their presidential election is being dragged through the courts It's like "can you remember anything longer back than last week?" | ||||
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08-27-2006, 09:00 PM
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| Banned Conservative Government is another way to say Better Than You
| Originally Posted by Thorgrim 'your own side'?!
you're comparing the medieval world to the present?!! | ||||
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08-27-2006, 09:01 PM
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| You poop from your mouth. Populist
| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz
 "His side" wants a dark-ages world ruled by theocratic law where gays and rape victims are killed, and thieves have their hands amputated. | ||||
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08-27-2006, 09:04 PM
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| Better Dead than Red  Democrat Where America Goes to Talk
| he's with us or he's with them  | ||||
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08-27-2006, 09:05 PM
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| Banned Progressive Philadelphia, PA
| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz Actually many parts of the Christian world had such beliefs less than a hundred years ago...pretty brand new a religion thats based on a 6000 year founding by the Judeo-Christians philosophers and a 2000 year old Christian religion
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08-27-2006, 09:06 PM
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| Banned Conservative Government is another way to say Better Than You
| Originally Posted by Thorgrim proof?
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08-27-2006, 09:10 PM
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| You poop from your mouth. Populist
| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz ib
Well Stalin hacked off people's limbs and shit and there are Christians in Russia, so that counts as the Christian world. | ||||
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08-27-2006, 09:14 PM
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| Originally Posted by ballz2wallz i am not about to dig through history books to someone who has no interesting except for pissing off democrats
however, my memory is quite good, and 1910s Slavic Christians were still clinging to the idea of Moscow being the "Third Rome" under which a world-wide Christendom would flourish, and certainly "God is great" was still being sung throughout Byzantine Europe, and probably large parts of Protestant and Catholic Europe | ||||
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08-27-2006, 09:30 PM
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| You poop from your mouth. Populist
| Slavic Christians don't stone women to death for being alone with a man other than her husband. | ||||
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08-27-2006, 09:35 PM
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| Banned Progressive Philadelphia, PA
| Originally Posted by archangel003 yeah only the bible does that! haha those lunatics!
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