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Originally posted by ltl/fb
OMG!!!!!! Bilmore and Hello and Hank and all are French!
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I'll take a lot of abuse to be here, but you go a bit far now.
No, I'm not arguing that the things done weren't bad, or even "weren't that bad". That's a mischaracterization of what I was saying (and note that, whatever I was saying, I was saying before I learned of the deaths.)
I was simply saying that the common understanding of the term "war crimes" that was being bandied about was something far more serious than what we were seeing that had been done to the Iraqis. (Again, this is before I knew of the deaths. Those, I think, qualify.) My examples - Treblinka, My Lai, etc. - those fit what we think of when we think "war crimes". Less seemed to me to be arguing the overly-nerdy-lawyer argument that a speeding ticket in a war zone is a "war crime". (Or at least a "war petty misdemeanor".)
