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Some marines got a little gun happy...
teef two:
1. Reporter was there.
2. You only get shown on TV what the station wants to show you.
3. We cannot possibly know the hell that young soldier went through in the hours before the incident, we cannot even come close to imagining it.
4. There had, apparently, been previous incidents where bodies had been booby-trapped.
Now I personally think that this war is not justified and I'll not discuss that here. However you have to support your armed forces otherwise when you really need them, they may not care enough.
The Geneva convention is there for a reason but sometimes the rules are going to be broken. I've always thought that having rules for warfare was slightly ridiculous, not from a humanitarian point of view but jst the idea that it's practicable. But the majority of the time it works.
In some cases these things are going to happen. It's a battlefield, people are being killed left, right and centre. Soldiers will be pumped up and alert. Discipline and protecting your fellow soldier are paramount. Most importantly a dead enemy can't harm you. What do we really expect to happen in a war?
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Rotoman:
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Dexter:
--- Quote from: Rotoman on November 17, 2004, 09:54:19 am ---btw, you'll notice I've been registered on this board for a couple months but frankly I'm such a noob at this stuff I haven't had anything worthwhile from a BYOAC point of view to post. Hopefully I will very soon but right now I'm just collecting information.
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Cool, then I look forward to your contribution and hopefully can help you out with any questions you have. Due to the time difference between the US and where I am most questions posted that I can assist with are already answered by the time I read them! I've completed 3 cabs so far and have needed lots of pointers from the board. Don't be afraid to ask, I couldn't have done any building without the help of the guys here, we are all noobs at some stage!!
Of course theres no requirement to post first to the main forums but there has been members solely hammering the 'everything else' forum without having a project, contirbuting or asking questions about arcade related stuff.
By the way, welcome to the forums!
patrickl:
A Dutch soldier shot a Iraqi looter in the back. Het was brought back to the Netherlands and tried in court. He was acquitted based on the theory that the soldier fired into the ground and the bullet riccochet of the groud into the back of the looter (i.e. it was meant as a warning shot). IIRC The Dutch justice department is going to appeal though.
Our military are angry over this because it creates insecurity for the troops. A soldier would like to know for sure if/when he's allowed to kill people in a warzone, but since they claim it's an accident ...
I saw the movie Black Hawk down. Of course it in no way gives you the real experience of how dreadful being in a war must be (with shots flying around everywhere and getting shot and such), but it does give a hint of how bad it must be.