Re: Cover ups

[<Jhk789@aol.com>]

In a message dated 8/9/2001 5:13:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
msmall@roanoke.infi.net writes:


> There is absolutely nothing contrary to either US or International law in
> machine-gunning Japanese soldiers after their boat was sunk, 


Marc,

I wonder where you learned that law.
Must be in the Army!

One of the key principles of the humanitarian law
is that it prohibits unnecessary suffering to combatants.
Shooting at soldiers who are being drowned anyway is 
clearly unnecessary. In fact, the humane thing under
such circumstances would be to rescue them and 
turn them over to prison camps.

John2