‘’I don’t care if that Kraut bastard is a sixteen year old snot-nosed kid in short pants or an eighty-year old syphilitic prick with asthma . If he’s behind four feet of concrete he can still pull the trigger on a machine gun and kill my men’’.— General George S. Patton in response to criticism of American GI’s shooting older and young German soldiers. I think the message is clear . You take up arms against your country at any age and get killed doing it, tough sh!t.
Patton fought a WAR. A war declared by congress. He could have wiped out every man woman an child and it would have been justified by Law.
What we're in is NOT a war. It is a police action or other somesuch nonsense because we NEVER declared WAR. Congress just made a statement of policy (Resolution) and started killing people.
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Don't get me wrong. I think the terrorists should be obliterated from the face of the Earth, but WHY should a government that won't follow the Constitution to engage in war worry about a little piddly issue like crapping all over someones right to due process?