[T'wit]

>> I would hope we shoot the walking, armed, unsurrendered wounded. They can shoot us.

Sure, but this was a coup de grace. By definition the enemy soldier was helpless.

[VadeRetro]

By definition the enemy soldier was helpless.

See post 36. "By definition?"

[VadeRetro]

Sure, but this was a coup de grace.

OK, I see what you're going for with the "by definition." Nevertheless, you don't make a war crimes tribunal out of some writer's perhaps unintentionally incriminating turn of phrase unless that writer was Kerry himself in the after-action report.