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To: GST who wrote (196652)	8/10/2006 6:07:30 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) of 281500

No armed force except perhaps some tiny ones that have never been at war, or perhaps a brand new armed force, is free of war crimes. To say we won't support anyone with any history of war crimes means we won't support anyone else. We can't fund UN peacekeeping forces. They have abused children and collaborated with terrorists. Also we can't fund our own military because we aren't perfect either. Send a huge amount of soldiers to war and some of them will act very badly, even if they risk prosecution and punishment. Soldiers aren't saints any more than people in general are saints. In this conflict you have two sides. One (Israel) which at worst has an ordinary record of occasional war crimes, and which arguably has a much better than ordinary record for a country that has frequently been at war; and one (Hezbollah) who's standard method of operation is war crimes and terrorism. Hiding behind human shields to launch your attacks is a war crime. If the civilians that Hezbollah is hiding behind are killed the crime involved is Hezbollah's not Israels.

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