Poor, Stupid Beth Takes Yugo's Lead - Supports Daffy Gaddafi

[GOBUCKS]

Poor, stupid Beth and the other Yugettes remind me a lot of ronbots. They share a special kind of stupid. One can only anticipate with contained glee how they will react when their beloved Yugo slithers across the Rainbow Bridge, as he soon will. Maybe we'll get lucky, and he can go arm-in-arm with Fidel. The DUmp's hammer-and-sickle banner will be at half-mast for a year. And then, if the Kenyan loses in 2012...

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Sep-01-11 11:20 PM
Original message
TNC-NATO siege of Sirte is a war crime.

By NicolasDavies - Posted on 02 September 2011

NATO and the Transitional National Council in Libya (or Paris or Qatar or wherever it is) have reportedly given the people of Sirte ten days to surrender or face a full military onslaught. This is not a cease-fire. While they await their fate, they will still be subject to artillery fire and NATO bombing, and food, water and electricity have already been cut off.

This closely resembles the tactics adopted toward resistance-held towns in Iraq by U.S. occupation forces. On October 14th 2004, the Washington Post reported that water and electricity supplies to Falluja had been cut off, one day before the start of Ramadan. Its population was then starved and bombarded for 3 weeks before the final assault by U.S. Marines that killed 4,000 to 6,000 civilians.

But these siege tactics, which have been used against civilian populations since the Middle Ages, have been outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. In particular, Article 14 of the second Protocol to the Geneva Conventions states, "Starvation of civilians as a method of combat is prohibited. It is therefore prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless for that purpose objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population such as food-stuffs, agricultural areas for the production of food-stuffs, crops, livestock, drinking water installations, and supplies and irrigation works."

The 4th Geneva Convention prohibits all forms of attacks on civilians and the collective punishment of civilian populations, so virtually everything that the combined TNC-NATO forces are doing to the people of Sirte is strictly illegal and in fact criminal.

http://warisacrime.org/content/tnc-nato-siege-sirte-war...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1860654

tabatha  (1000+ posts)      Thu Sep-01-11 11:30 PM
Response to Original message
3. NATO and TNC are trying to prevent further bloodshed

 

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Sep-01-11 11:35 PM
Response to Reply #3
6. When you commit a war crime, that makes you a war criminal.
There is no pointing fingers at unverified bullshit from twitter and saying, they did it more, Mommy.

tabatha  (1000+ posts)      Thu Sep-01-11 11:33 PM
Response to Original message
4. Libya: pro-Gaddafi forces left 29 detainees in hot metal containers - 19 died

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Sep-01-11 11:49 PM
Response to Reply #4
10. I will not play dueling atrocities with you.

 

[Karin]

EFerrari  (1000+ posts)        Thu Sep-01-11 11:49 PM
Response to Reply #4
10. I will not play dueling atrocities with you.

 

God, I hate it when she gets down on her knees for dictators.  I loathe her.  40 people cooked to death?  "I don't care." 

[BannedFromDU]

God, I hate it when she gets down on her knees for dictators.  I loathe her.  40 people cooked to death?  "I don't care." 

     Beth is a microcosm of how people like Hitler could have gone unchallenged. She's a stupid, worthless c-nt, and I abhor that word. It's the only one that fits her.

[jukin]

My gut tells me that what will replace Colonel Daffy will be far worse for the Libyan people and the rest of the world.

[Rugnuts]

My gut tells me that what will replace Colonel Daffy will be far worse for the Libyan people and the rest of the world.

my sentiments about all of the arab spring that is supposed to be "great"

[Skul]

Poor stupid Beth couldn't take the beatings anymore, and has yet to reply after her "dueling atrocities" rwmark.

[Duke Nukum]

It's all about compassion with that one.