MisterVeritis (01-03-2019)
Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution as written and understood by this nation's founders, and to the Republic it created, an indivisible union of sovereign States, with liberty and justice for all.
Oh, I wish I were a glow worm,
for a glow worm's never glum,
'cause how can you be grumpy
when the sun shines out your bum!
That is not necessarily true. Rather if the 15 year old was "out of combat" then you shift from kill to capture. Out of combat is a technical legal term and would require some sort of affirmative action or display of being out of the fight (such as unconscious).
As an example if the US targets Hagi Number 10 because he is an expert bomb maker actively in conflict with the US, we can sweep in an shoot Hagi Number 10 when he is taking a dump- we don't have to wait for him to finish, get a weapon, aim it as us, and then continue the mission.
But if we shot Hagi Number 10 in the shoulder and he fell unconscious it becomes much murkier. You always clear an objective - and unconscious enemy may not survive that. But at some point when we realize that Hagi Number 10 is unconscious and out of combat we must treat him as a prisoner of war.
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MisterVeritis (01-27-2019)
Update.
New details in the case against a Navy SEAL charged with multiple war crimes emerged Friday during a marathon motion hearing at Naval Base San Diego.
The hearing revealed that seven Navy SEALs have been granted immunity to testify for the prosecution during the upcoming trial of Edward R. Gallagher, a chief special warfare operator alleged to have murdered a wounded teenage ISIS combatant by stabbing him in the neck.
The trial phase is scheduled for Feb. 19. Prosecutors expect to call the seven SEALs and up to 13 additional witnesses of the May 2017 incident in Mosul, Iraq.
Defense attorneys asked the judge, Navy Capt. Aaron Rugh, to suppress some aspects of those witnesses’ expected testimony, particularly the numbers of people Gallagher allegedly bragged about killing.
Witnesses told NCIS investigators that Gallagher bragged about killing up to 200 people during the 2017 deployment. Another witness said Gallagher told him he killed “three a day” and to “do the math” for the total number he killed.
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"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
Ephesians 6:12
Of course it depends on how injured the boy was - if he was fighting back at the time, or was incapable of that. The Geneva Conventions of 1949 forbid the killing of combatants who are injured and hors de combat. In fact, they rule that any such combatants must be treated medically and looked after as prisoners of war. I'm sure your military justice system would not have prosecuted this decorated soldier, if they did not have a strong case under both military law and the Geneva Conventions. So my first sentence is not necessarily wrong.
Oh, I wish I were a glow worm,
for a glow worm's never glum,
'cause how can you be grumpy
when the sun shines out your bum!