War is a crime

The concept of " war crimes " is ridiculous. In case you didn ' t know it, the principal charges at the Nuremberg trials were plotting and carrying out invasions -- committing an illegal war of aggression. How the defendants specifically waged war was not the issue. And by the way, the allied countries indiscriminately bombed cities for the precise purpose of massacring civilians -- as depicted by Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five.During the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. generals spoke frequently of what they call " collateral damage. " This is when they bomb wedding parties, as seemed to happen routinely,or when they bombed and destroyed the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, killing 42 people: Starting at 2:08am on Saturday 3 October, a United States AC-130 gunship fired 211 shells on the main hospital building where patients were sleeping in their beds or being operated on in the operating theatre. At least 42 people were killed, including 24 patients, 14 staff and 4 caretakers. Thirty-seven people were injured.Our patients burned in their beds, our medical staff were decapitated or lost limbs. Others were shot from the air while they fled the burning building. The attack from the air lasted for around one hour. The main hospital building came under precise and repeated airstrikes, while the surrounding buildings were left mostly untouched.Throughout the airstrikes our teams desperately called military authorities to stop the a...
Source: Stayin' Alive - Category: American Health Source Type: blogs