Posted on 09/26/2015 6:08:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Defense Department has responded to mounting allegations that U.S. soldiers were told to ignore Afghan troops abusing children by insisting there was "no such policy" at the time.
But lawmakers and those who served in Afghanistan suggest that the Pentagon is leaning on semantics -- and that while there may have been no official policy telling troops to turn a blind eye, they certainly didn't encourage American soldiers to intervene either. Plus, they say cases where those who did intervene were punished sent a clear message to fellow soldiers.
Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., who served in Afghanistan, called the department's response to the controversy “pure lawyer-speak.”
“Of course there is no policy, like they say, but they were allowing this to happen," he told Fox News' "The Kelly File."
Other accounts appeared to back up that claim.
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Charter of the International Military Tribunal
Nuremberg Trials
Under ARTICLE 6 (c) Crimes against Humanity: namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of domestic law of the country where perpetrated.
ARTICLE 7
The official position of defendants, whether as Heads of State or responsible officials in Government departments, shall not be considered as freeing them from responsibility or mitigating punishment.
ARTICLE 8
The fact that the defendant acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior shall not free him from responsibility, but may be considered in mitigation of punishment if the Tribunal determine that justice so requires.
Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland, a Green Beret who was ordered discharged after he confronted an Moslem Afghan child rapist, was informed Tuesday that the Army has denied his appeal.
When I was on active duty in the U.S. Army, there were posters everywhere informing Army personnel that they must refuse to carry out an illegal order. The example given of an illegal order was rape: "An order to rape is obviously illegal."
An order not to interfere with rape would obviously be as illegal as an order to commit rape.
Furthermore, the Nürnberg Trials established the principle that both the person committing such a crime and the person giving the order to commit such a crime are equally culpable.
Accordingly, anyone who refuses to interfere in the rape of a child and anyone giving the order to do so are guilty of criminal behavior as established by the Nürnberg Trials.
Martland and Quinn are heroes!
Generals just following orders from their Muslim loving CiC. That is, after all, how they got promoted when all their other bretheren were being RIFed in Obama’s version of the “Night of the Long Knives”.
Everyone following those orders, everyone who refuses to stop it when they see it, are all guilty of war crimes. Whoever issued these orders should be found out, court martialed, then sent to the Hague.
I feel so bad for all our good servicemen and women in this perverted filth of a military. They need to get out and let the upper echelon perverts get out from behind their cushy desks and go to the battlefield.
As sure as I’m sitting here typing this God’s punishment is coming to this country and our military .
Hussein, DOD Secretary Carter, Joint Chief GEN Dempsey are guilty of War Crimes — wrapping of civilians in their “protection”
They definitely enforced a policy of pedophilia.
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