November 17, 2004
Die, you bastards
By now most of you should probably have heard about the execution of an Iraqi prisoner by a US marine.
I, for one, have absolutely no sympathy.
But now it seems that, provoked by the Baathist News Network, the Sunnis in Iraq are pissed.
I, for one, would like to tell them to kindly piss off.
We're fighting a battle of uniformed soldiers against unorganized, irregular, hostage-taking, car-bomb-using, suicidal monsters. The "insurgents", as the anti-West press is so fond of calling these dogs, strap charges to themselves so they can blow themselves up when American soldiers try to care for them once they're out of action.
And don't try and pull some Geneva Convention lawyer bullshit to say that what happened here is a war crime. If you read the damn thing, you'll see that the people we're currently fighting are specifically excluded by the convention under the definition of prisoners of war.
Geneva Convention III, Part I, Article 4, section A:
"Prisoners of war, in the sense of the present Convention, are persons belonging to one of the following categories, who have fallen into the power of the enemy:"
Paragraph 2 of this section says:
"(2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions:[ (a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (b) that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (c) that of carrying arms openly; (d) that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war."
The "insurgents" do not meet any of those four qualifications, and are thus not to be considered soldiers, and thus cannot be prisoners of war under the current legal definition of such. They're terrorists, and having chosen to operate outside the boundaries of civilized law, no civilized law shall be used in their defense. F*ck them.
/rant off.
