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Asswipe, I just reread the UCMJ and I am unable to find the article in the UCMJ that provides for a charge of committing a war crime. I thought that it was possible they had added it since I left the military but apparently not. Please educate me and quote the article that one is charged with for committing a war crime. If you cannot then please shut the fuck up about this act of murder and rape being anything other than that, murder and rape. They will be charged with the same articles of the UCMJ just as they would be, whether egaged in a conflict or not.
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Make an effort to read the reports from this hearing - and others. I'm not going to entertain any of your garbage, tho briefly - these are the words of the prosecution:
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US soldiers must follow the laws of war... These soldiers did just the opposite," Capt Mackey said.
"For this, they are not war heroes, they are war criminals. And justice states that they face trial."
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There are also other issues which are being treated as war crimes in currently ongoing investigations (refer to the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha last November as an example).
Due to the numbers of possible problem incidents, there is now demands for change of procedure where US personnel can be prosecuted in the Iraqi courts. It's clearly an absurd scenario and weakens credibility for the US military to be investigating/prosecuting serious offenses as an internal issue when other countries would refer their troops to the ICC for these types of offenses. It's also prob not a good idea to have Iraqi courts deal with this - again, they are clearly not independent tho may help cool the objections from the Iraqi govt and people.
Don't tell me trash about the UCMJ not being able to prosecute war crimes. If that is the case - who the fuck is prosecuting them? Or have we never entertained the concept that US troops could possibly commit war crimes??