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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron2" data-source="post: 1732018" data-attributes="member: 1436">My understanding is that it supposedly violates the "The Hague Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land of 1907; Article 23 (e)" against weapons that cause "superfluous injury." ...Here is that article. Note that the original document is French."Art. 23. In addition to the prohibitions provided by special Conventions, it is especially forbidden(a) To employ poison or poisoned weapons;(b) To kill or wound treacherously individuals belonging to the hostile nation or army;(c) To kill or wound an enemy who, having laid down his arms, or having no longer means of defence, has surrendered at discretion;(d) To declare that no quarter will be given;(e) To employ arms, projectiles, or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering;(f) To make improper use of a flag of truce, of the national flag or of the military insignia and uniform of the enemy, as well as the distinctive badges of the Geneva Convention;(g) To destroy or seize the enemy's property, unless such destruction or seizure be imperatively demanded by the necessities of war;(h) To declare abolished, suspended, or inadmissible in a court of law the rights and actions of the nationals of the hostile party. A belligerent is likewise forbidden to compel the nationals of the hostile party to take part in the operations of war directed against their own country, even if they were in the belligerent's service before the commencement of the war. "Of course, doing anything but wave at the bad guy can easily be construed as violating this nonsense.The Geneva convetions thing has been given new momentum with John Kerry's oft quoted 1971 remark, "I used 50-caliber machine guns which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. ... All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare. All of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions ..."Aaron</blockquote>

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