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In reply to the discussion: Veteran Has Had It With Republicans: ‘Don’t You Dare Thank Me For My Military Service’ [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)95. HRC don't need no stinkin' Geneva Conventions! Never did - never will!
Senators Schumer and Clinton were sent several letters begging them to help remove the Iraqis from Abu Ghraib as it was in violation of the Geneva conventions regarding protecting those under an army's charge and keeping them from harm and away from the field of battle. Crickets on that one folks, big crickets.
Also evidenced by Hillary's support for the use of land mines and cluster bombs, regardless of how many children were killed and maimed by same. Guess she hadn't "evolved" into being a self-proclaimed champion of children yet.
"The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under international law: wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or destruction not justified by military necessity." -- Nuremberg conventions, Principle VI
Combatants "shall at all times distinguish between the civilian population and combatants and between civilian objects and military objectives and, accordingly, shall direct their operations only against military objectives." -- Geneva Conventions, part IV, Article 48
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/21/425303/-Hillary-Clinton-Voted-to-Continue-Cluster-Bombing-Civilians
as per http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251413864
The main point: Hillary Clinton voted to let our military continue to use cluster bombs in areas with concentrated civilian populations, despite the thousands of innocent children who have died or been handicapped due to picking up unexploded cluster bomblets.
This vote was cast in September 6, 2006 on an amendment to the Defense Appropriations act by Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Before I get into why this was such an important amendment and why a no vote was so terrible, I just want to post the vote totals with presidential candidates in bold.
30 Democrats voted YEA: Akaka (D-HI), Baucus (D-MT), Bingaman (D-NM), Boxer (D-CA), Byrd (D-WV), Cantwell (D-WA), Carper (D-DE), Conrad (D-ND)
Dayton (D-MN), Dorgan (D-ND), Durbin (D-IL), Feingold (D-WI), Feinstein (D-CA), Harkin (D-IA), Jeffords (I-VT), Johnson (D-SD), Kennedy (D-MA), Kerry (D-MA), Kohl (D-WI), Leahy (D-VT), Levin (D-MI), Menendez (D-NJ), Mikulski (D-MD), Murray (D-WA), Obama (D-IL), Reed (D-RI), Reid (D-NV), Sarbanes (D-MD), Stabenow (D-MI), Wyden (D-OR)
15 Democrats and every Republican voted NAY (R's not listed):
Bayh (D-IN), Biden (D-DE), Clinton (D-NY), Dodd (D-CT), Inouye (D-HI), Landrieu (D-LA), Lautenberg (D-NJ), Lieberman (D-CT), Lincoln (D-AR), Nelson (D-FL), Nelson (D-NE), Pryor (D-AR), Rockefeller (D-WV), Salazar (D-CO), Schumer (D-NY)
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Veteran Has Had It With Republicans: ‘Don’t You Dare Thank Me For My Military Service’ [View all]
Quixote1818
Jul 2015
OP
It's times like this that I truly wish I believed in hell. I'd wish that ALL those responsible
rhett o rick
Jul 2015
#127
war is a racket, and I have long held that the Iraq war was one of the cruelest ruses ever played on
Fast Walker 52
Jul 2015
#49
Ditto from the 60s...they said the 90s would stand the 60s on it's proverbial head. Indeed.
libdem4life
Jul 2015
#52
+1 I considered any car with that fucking ribbon to be a threat to me and the other drivers.
L0oniX
Jul 2015
#75
Thanks. "ISIS was formed in our prisons" - likewise, the Islamic Brotherhood
closeupready
Jul 2015
#56
Unfortunately the people of Iraq just happened live above a very large pool of petroleum; and...
Raster
Jul 2015
#64
+1 from an old late 1960's war protester with forever changed friends who came home.
L0oniX
Jul 2015
#71
Thank you for this post, shadowmayor. Eloquent, devastating, and must be communicated widely.
seafan
Jul 2015
#100
As Le Taz Says, Please Do Not Allow Your Moving Words to Remain Buried in a Comment Stream (nfm)
The Roux Comes First
Jul 2015
#126
Concerning W, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the other Republican hacks that killed all these people...
PatrickforO
Jul 2015
#10
This harkens to another age of American veterans from World War I the "Bonus March".
gordianot
Jul 2015
#38
R#195 & K for, I've been saying this for years. The local radio wingnut lectured me
UTUSN
Jul 2015
#86
Actually, the Repubs are quite correct to thank the troops for their service
brentspeak
Jul 2015
#92
If only all of them would wake up. Sadly most either don't vote or are repubs.
craigmatic
Jul 2015
#97