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By John Richardson, published 22/11/2006Why are allegations against members of the Australian Army in East Timor from seven years ago still being 'examined'?
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These people forfeit their right to decent treatment when they opt to maim, kill, torture & kidnap those who are truly innocent, as they have excluded themselves from the human race.
Also, the majority are lucky to be breathing at all since they would not have been covered under the Geneva convention.
I just don't get these bleeding heart lefties who think these scum deserve to be treated as fellow humans. I'm sorry but their treatment just doesn't register as an issue for me, and the better we treat them the more they think they can get away with, since we're giving the distinct impression of being too soft.
Ultimately the only language they understand is violence, and the only way to beat these dogs is to stoop to their level.
I do think however, that if soldiers are caught committing acts of murder & rape against civilians (especially children), as one group of American soldiers has been tried for recently, that the full weight of the law should fall on their shoulders, as they are no better than the terrorists.
Other than that, the fact is war is hell, and we can't expect to send soldiers in among civilians without some serious drama. Soldiers are not corrections officers, and we shouldn't expect them to be so, since their only function is killing the enemy.