Vigilante
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- #101
Oh, really???ISIS signed the Geneva convention?... unless both side are signers it's UNENFORCEABLE!
Both you and BitchyIrishAss need to read up on the Conventions and why they are there, and that yeah, even though the terrorists didn't sign (they're not a country, just a loose coalition of individuals and groups), the US still has to abide by them.
It's not negotiable. EVERY president since they were enacted has had to follow them, even in Viet Nam when the North Vietnamese didn't abide by them.
Then why did FDR bomb German cities???
Or why did Truman NUKE two Japanese cities???
Seems you Democrats have short memories!!!
Why did FDR bomb German cities? Why did Truman nuke 2 Japanese cities? Simple, those acts happened BEFORE the Geneva Conventions. The first ones weren't enacted until after WWII in 1949, with modifications that happened in 1959.
Seems that you Republicans have no grasp of history, otherwise you wouldn't have brought up those 2 woefully inept (and wrong) examples. It was because of things like that happening in WWII that the countries got together and signed them. Might wanna read up on them sometime. Almost every military man understands them and why they are there.
BOMBED HANOI...wasn't that AFTER Geneva...dumbass!
You're talking about Operation Linebacker, an operation ordered by Nixon (a Republican), to take out strategic targets like railroads and enemy positions. And, there are those that say it was because of Operation Linebacker that the Viet Nam war ended a month later. Did it kill some civilians? Yes. Was it against the Geneva Conventions? No. Otherwise lots of people would have rose up against Nixon because of it.
Dumbass!
BUT YOU state as the Geneva convention states....NO CIVILIANS.... so YOU simply lied!