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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill the GOP make War Crimes part of their platform...?
their presumptive nominee is running on a platform of waterboarding our enemies....it IS a war crime.
WATERBOARDING:
As a form of torture, waterboarding became illegal under the law of war with the adoption of the third Geneva Convention of
1929, which required that prisoners of war be treated humanely, and the third and fourth Geneva Conventions of 1949, which explicitly prohibited the torture and cruel
treatment of prisoners of war and civilians, respectively. On the basis of the 1929 convention the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE; 194648)
convicted 25 Japanese leaders of responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity, specifically including torture by waterboarding (referred to by the IMTFE as
the water treatment).
1929, which required that prisoners of war be treated humanely, and the third and fourth Geneva Conventions of 1949, which explicitly prohibited the torture and cruel
treatment of prisoners of war and civilians, respectively. On the basis of the 1929 convention the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE; 194648)
convicted 25 Japanese leaders of responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity, specifically including torture by waterboarding (referred to by the IMTFE as
the water treatment).
https://www.britannica.com/topic/waterboarding
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Will the GOP make War Crimes part of their platform...? (Original Post)
spanone
Jun 2016
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Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)1. I say highly doubtful
Since it is mainly they who are guilty of them. Or at least ordering/orchestrating them.
spanone
(135,633 posts)2. they should be proud of their handiwork and their nominee...put it in the platform
chickenshits....he's running on it.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)4. Yeah I see what you're saying but
I just don't see that anyone besides the goobers would find it a favorable plank, despite all the idiocy the goops have shown over the past several years. That said, they've surprised me before when I believed they'd hit the pinnacle of craziness.
You're right though. They should.
malaise
(267,808 posts)3. Of course and then scumbags like Don the Con
will say something is going on.
Every action has a reaction - that's what's going on. Fuck the fucking warmongering fuckers.