Republicans how can you deny that Bombing of Iraqi civilians was not a war crime?

Question

Please also look at the pictures your "freedom and democracy" has brought to these innocent children.
http://www.cursor.org/stories/mythofprecision.html

heres another one
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/26/world/middleeast/26haditha.html?ex=1306296000&en=73b91e4388971ba0&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-939782874167532503
depleted uranium anyone???

Answer 1

What would make you think these types would ever look at the face if death in Iraq?. They will not. These types send others to do the dirty work for them. Since Bush and Cheney are both draft dodgers they know nothing of war, they will also not look at the face of death in Iraq. To these types the death of over 3500 brave Americans and over 650,000 civilians in Iraq since the first invasion is not important. It "happens" in war and "more" die in auto accidents, I've heard form these types. They will never admit we should not have invaded Iraq the second time, in the first place, never.
BTW, anyone who claims to be a independent is in fact voting Republican, they do not vote the person, they vote pocket book 100 percent. I noticed many that are now calling themselves independent only did so because they are embarrassed by GW Bush and Cheney. TY for the sites, read them all before. Also those that claim to make a effort to limit civilians killed know nothing of war. Talk to anyone in the Navy that fired rounds from the Gulf into Iraq and see if they knew for sure they would kill only the enemy. The air force also does not have enemy only killing bombs.
Congress approved the removal of Saddam and the search for WMDs. Congress never approved the occupation of Iraq open ended. There is a difference. In the occupation of Iraq the word "defeat" does not apply. There are many in our great nation who are willing to send others to fight and die and do there dirty work for them also many who are un educated and just plain stupid. Try as you may, you can not change the mind of those that are stupid. They would vote for Bush again if they could do so.

Answer 2

When it comes to conflict, humans are fantastic at creating devices to try and stop the conflict. We are also superb at miaracle cures to halt infection when a war is happening. Pathetically, democracy has no place in war. War is the atomic bomb, war is land mines, war is covert operations and war is civilian casualties.
The biggest problem, and I hate to add this, is that the bleeding hearts always want to add in the the civilians. In a war like Vietnam, very similar to our current wars, a child carrying a bomb is a civilian?
Wars are now urban based and not fought on a field or forest as the 1st and 2nd world wars. The Korean war was the first war that was fought in modern real time media reporting. That war was not won. The Afghan conflict, prior to the US intervention, cost more than 1,000,000 souls, not counting civilians. And that was a civil war. Why did the US buy into that I have no idea.
Republicans did not buy into these wars, the governments, whether Republican or Democrat, before the current Government, are responsible. The fact is that the human fraility is that they tend to want forget modern history, celebrate past history and remember all those things that they can relate to. Civil War re-enactments and not the fact there are people away from home, as always in war.
I am now suggesting that now, war is the current form of globlisation, economic development, where by the companies get richer. I will leave it at that and suggest that you review your thinking.
Buy shares and pay tax!

Answer 3

First things first. Can't prosecute Bush unless Clinton is convicted. Our Kosovo bombing war was a Clinton/Blair/ NATO war crime. As Henry Kissinger stated in his 5/3/99 NEWSWEEK article, the Rambouillet Treaty was an ultimatum, not a peace treaty. This "treaty" demanded that NATO troops be allowed to occupy all of Yugoslavia including Serbia and was an unconditional surrender ultimatum Clinton nd Blair knew Milosevich couldn't accept. Thus the Serbs were free to commit the EXPECTED atrocities they did. (How many civilians died because of this?) Clinton could then use to justify the war after the fact. NATO's attack on Serbia was equivalent to the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, both in precedent and diplomatic consequences. Saying Clinton isn't responsible for Kosovo is like saying Hitler wasn't responsible for the Nazi Holocaust.
The UN War Crimes Tribunal should be investigating and indicting them -- if there is fair and equal justice under international law. Once Clinton is imprisioned--we can talk about Bush.

Answer 4

Yes. This obviously was a war crime. It should be thoroughly investigated and the perpetrators punished appropriately. Of course the US, did not join the world court, so we cannot count on an objective third party to investigate.

My only criticism of the question is the fact that Democrats deserve equal blame. Why point just at Republicans? Democrats quickly signed the emergency bills and have been supporting the outrageous costs.

The only benefit of this war has been a wealthy few who happened to win the jackpot on their stock choices. Or is it a random lottery?

Answer 5

Well I'm not a Republican or a Democrat. I just wish you people would get over it. Care so much about the poor civilians then concentrate on the radical Muslims that kill innocent adults and children every day in Iraq. I however don't think you care at all you just want to rant against the Republicans and waste all your energy on that. Anyone who cares about Iraq at least realize we can't just leave them now to be murdered. Agree with the invasion or not we need to concentrate the current situation not the past. Lets see you put so much energy into denouncing the radicals who are the real murderers before the invasion or after.

Answer 6

You're right... It's would've been much better for them to still be under Saddam's rule. That way they can worry about Saddam's death squad coming to take them away at night. Or if they were Kurds, they could have the privelage of testing Saddam's chemical weapons. The life they led after our invasion and before their death was better and more fulfilling than if they had lived 100yrs under Saddam's rule. They probably had clean water for the first time in thier lives. And thier kid's probably had an opportunity to go to school and get some education before they died. Why don't you try getting the whole story before you judge? Or, if you got a problem with the way things are going over there, join the military, get you're butt over there and make a difference!

Answer 7

ambien....that just goes to show how uneducated you are! He killed many Iraq people and we are still discovering mass graves. In response to the question.....In many wars there are many causalities of war on both sides....Iraq government shouldn't have funded terrorist to start the war in the 1st place. Remember they attack us 1st and it has not been the 1st time! What about pearl harbor? I think we dropped the a-bomb on japan. i know for a fact that many of the Iraq people want us there! I have served there and will be returning shortly. The picture that you have shown are coming from very liberal newspaper and companies. Liberals are very misleading people and only like to create propaganda and lies as well as hate. You can not trust the media as a full source.

Answer 8

Because it did not violate the Geneva Convention, or any other definition of "war crime" ...

... exactly how can you claim that it was a "war crime" ??? What specific statute or treaty did it violate??

You can argue that you don't like it, you could argue that it was wrong, you could argue that it was atrocious... but it wasn't a war crime.

Answer 9

Civilian casualties are terrible and as a member of the Air Force, I can tell you that we take a lot of precautions to try and prevent such occurrences. But the thing you need to remember is this is a WAR, and war is not pretty for either side. We've come a long way from just dropping unguided bombs. The technological advances of our weapons has prevented thousands of more civilian casualties.

Answer 10

If it wasn't in WW1 or WW2 then why now. We should have leveled that toilet before the first soldier stepped foot across the border. Our troops should have found a handful of survivors and those should have been killed. War is not a popularity contest, either go into it with the full intent to destroy your enemy or stay home.