Are there really people out there that think soldiers don't get punished for breaking the geneva convention?

Question

I happen to know they do. I was once busted big time just for touching a bike that wasn't mine in Germany. I was also busted for just being in a car while the driver was drunk. Don't you think that we would get busted for killing innocents on purpose or mistreating prisoners?
Our own convicts claim mistreatment. They rape each other and kill each other. Why isn't anyone complaining about that? When one Governor made his convicts live in tents and do state work, boy, you should have heard the whining.
We get blown up, shot at... when I went terrorist hunting (oh yeah, we gotta do that so they don't come and blow YOU up) I didn't even have a port-a-potty for 8 months.
I tell you, there are big punishments for breaking the Geneva convention. Look it up.

Answer 1

unless anyone here has been there and walked in the shoes of one ,just one of the troops don't condem them , you don't know who your fighting they could shake your hand in the morning and blow you up in the afternoon. the troops don't deserve the bad write ups that they are getting. i blame the media for that

Answer 2

Although I have read that people believe it is the media that is to blame for our soldiers being on trial, it is not. The military brought charges against the soldiers; the head of the military is the Commander in Chief, George Bush:

President George W Bush has vowed to punish any US marine guilty of shooting Iraqi civilians at Haditha.

"There is a thorough investigation going on. If ... laws were broken there will be punishment," Mr Bush said in Washington.

Answer 3

I consider you. we may be able to't be constrained to classic conflict even as the opposing forces are battling grimy. per chance the Geneva convention must be rescinded. i do not imagine that re written might want to be sturdy adequate. There are too many international locations available that pick to work out the USA neutered and unable to shield itself. (definite, France, i'm chatting with you) and there is not any way that i imagine that those international locations must have their critiques concidered on how we would want to run our warfare. very few of them wanted to help us strive against the warfare on Terror because they'd vested pursuits with the enemy anyhow.

Answer 4

U drifted off into rant mode, that I almost missed your question!

Me personally I think that it's not the soliders who should be punished under the Geneva Con. but the General above that gave the Orders!
& if you really got in a car with a drunk, good god man You got a death wish?

Answer 5

I think there's no question that soldier's get punished for many things. It's the officers (and up) that seem to escape punishment. The officers, generals, and beyond have special training and experience on how to disclaim all knowledge of a scandalous event and assert that it was an isolated situation a soldier and that there's no evidence of anyone else along the chain of supervision and oversight being culpable.

Answer 6

I think that the military gets punished for everything they do even if it is defending there own lives, they are suddenly murderers. Screw that! My father was in Vietnaum and my sister was in the Marine Corp. I come from a military family and it is B.S that are soldiers are brutally attacked to the point that identifying them has to happen by there tattoos, and now there are men facing murder charges for killing someone who could have potentially hurt them, weapon or not, it is Bull

Answer 7

When you put a 120,000 people together in a foreign land there's going to be a problem or two. I don't think its wrong to convict those who do wrong, but I do think its really sad when political opportunist from one side of the political agenda use the mistaken errors of these few as "fuel" for their cause. They hurt the rest of the military, they hurt the country, and to be honest - they don't care if they do.

Answer 8

However, the administration has said that none of the members of al-Qaeda or the insurgency in Iraq qualify for the protections. I wouldn't expect to see anyone punished for violating the convention against them.

Answer 9

Bush wiped his a** with the Geneva Conventions. A new precedent is set.

Answer 10

i know they get punished, i hear it on tv all the time. i dont believe any soilder over there should ever be punished for shooting an iraqi, whether it was an accident or not. people just dont know what they are really going through over there.