Subject: "The New Soldier" by John Kerry et al
From: (Scott MacEachern)
Date: 2/17/04 8:00 AM Pacific Standard Time
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Fred J. McCall wrote:

You mean the one the US isn't a signatory to and that was enacted some
years AFTER the remarks of Mr Kerry? Talk about your revisionist
history, Scott! Vietnam was BEFORE that.

(Shrug) Fair enough. then take a look at Convention IV of the Hague
1907 treaties, which limits th emeans of carrying out attacks --
especially Articles 24 and 25. Take a look as well at the discussion
of the 1977 Conventions, and especially the discussion of Article 51,
which prohibits indiscriminate attacks, at

http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/1a13044f...6/5e5142b6ba10
2b45c12563cd00434741?OpenDocument

"...1923 Article 51 is one of the most important articles in the
Protocol. It explicitly confirms the customary rule that innocent
civilians must be kept outside hostilities as far as possible

"....as far as posssible..." That is the loophole that makes it all
meaningless.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
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