Comments on: Caught Red-Handed

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:42:11 +0000

That’s great! Thank you! We’re almost famous or something!

By: C.S. Scott

C.S. Scott — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 22:37:20 +0000

This is a little off topic, but I thought of this blog upon reading this story…check it out.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=307

By: pt sargent

pt sargent — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:50:24 +0000

jvp..what’s the point re waterboarding and the Geneva convention….since Hezbollah does not subscribe to Geneva convention, ditto terrorists held in guantanamo, prisoners from these terrorists units have no rights period! that’s zero, none, zilch, nada! They are terrorists and we can do with them as we like. Any courtesies extended them are simply that..just courtesies, nothing more.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:48:29 +0000

Lebanon 08.12.1949 10.04.1951 – signatory to the Geneva conventions, Hezbollah being part of the Lebanese government is bound by the conventions. Try your moral relativism somewhere else.

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:38:26 +0000

Thanks for showing your lack of a moral compass. Yep, they get a pass.

By: JVP

JVP — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:23:31 +0000

Israel agreed to abide by the Geneva Conventions in 1949:
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/0/35D52356F487FC85C1256402003F9563?OpenDocument

The United States agreed to abide by the Geneva Conventions in 1932:
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/geneva02.htm

When did Hezbollah agree to abide by the Geneva conventions? Is the US guilty of breaking the Kyoto agreement because everyone else signed it?

And since we’re on the subject of the Geneva convention, where does waterboarding prisioners and holding prisioners indefinitely without trial fit into the Geneva convention?

By: PartisanTimes.com

PartisanTimes.com — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:04:35 +0000

QANA: Where Innocents Die, Hezbollah Wins…

With terrorist operations centered in residential zones, tragedies like this one are unavoidable: IAF strike kills 57, including over 34 youths.At least 56 people, more than half children, were killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike that crushed a build…

By: Flopping Aces

Flopping Aces — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 17:03:22 +0000

Pictures Showing The Cowardly Hezbollah…

By the way, this is a little off topic but check out this video of a UN ambulance helping to hide terrorists…..you have to see it to believe it:

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By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 16:38:42 +0000

Civilian deaths in Lebanon: MSM should examine Hezbollah’s part more closely…

The big story coming from the Middle East today is an Israeli airstrike that killed 56 civilians in Lebanon, including 34 children. Via AP:
QANA, Lebanon – Israeli missiles hit several buildings in a southern Lebanon village as people slept Sunday, k…

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:58:25 +0000

It’s also easy to counter with a question: who came first, Marion or Tarleton? But that is not really relevant since tit-for-tat is noever a good excuse. It is instructive of what was considered acceptable behavior during that time frame, however.

By: jefferson101

jefferson101 — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:46:08 +0000

The first comment begs for two questions.

First, was there a Geneva Convention (or more correctly, Conventions) at the time of the American Revolution?

Second, would you care to speculate on how the British would have disposed of Francis Marion had they captured him?

By: Don Singleton

Don Singleton — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:37:54 +0000

Photos that damn Hezbollah…

Hezbollah is made up of cowards that are afraid to meet their enemy in the battlefield like real soldiers, but they hide in civilian areas, hoping that Israel will not attack, and knowing that if they do, more civilians will be killed than Hezbollah,…..

By: Gaius

Gaius — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:40:41 +0000

Ah, so your position is that only the US and Israel can be held to the Geneva conventions. Thanks for clarifying that you give the terrorists a pass.

Bringing in an example from the Revolution is particularly disingenuous since what rules there were then were completely different.

By: Bill Franklin

Bill Franklin — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 13:09:11 +0000

Your implication is that Americans, even when confronted with a more powerful enemy, would never do such things? You migh want to research Francis Marion. I consider him a hero and a patriot, but you would declare him guilty of war crimes. Or is this more of “when they do it it’s bad, but when we do it it’s OK” like the WP debacle?

I’m sure Hezbollah is displaying pictures of the weapons being used against them and saying “look who supplies our enemy!” That was the impetus behind the 9/11 attack, and here we are throwing more fuel on the fire. Delightful.