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Senator Cash should be congratulated

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That this was Labor beat up has been proven by the Labor party pulling its head in and out of its backside.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 2:48:33 PM
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dear Shadow Minister,

after something a little weightier of Molan?

Here you go;

Australian responsibility: the assault on Fallujah
A second case providing detailed evidence for the war crimes prosecution of Australian officials is their direct responsibility for the brutal assaults on Fallujah in late 2004. There are numerous and well documented accusations of war crimes
committed under the direct command of Australian Major General Jim Molan. Noam Chomsky (2006) describes these allegations as ‘far more severe than the [Abu Ghraib] torture scandals’ [20: 73].

http://www.mapw.org.au/files/downloads/doran-anderson-war-crimes-2011%20%282%29.pdf
Posted by SteeleRedux, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 10:56:37 PM
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SR,

Have you actually read the document or looked at the background of the two authors? This article / "discussion paper" by two political scientists is only slightly less lightweight than the other drivel you have produced. That it is introduced by the social justice warrior Noam Chomsky does not lend it any credibility. That the article is full of waffle and very short on facts is not helped by glaring inaccuracies.

That these two claim a wide range of activities to be "war crimes" shows that either they wouldn't recognize the Geneva convention if they tripped over it, or that they are being deliberately misleading.

For example, targeting civilian areas, schools and hospitals is a war crime UNLESS enemy combatants are occupying or using these facilities, similarly neither phosphorus weapons or cluster munitions are prohibited in the GC only in other protocols to which the US are not signatories.

Anderson and Doran have yet to make any case.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Thursday, 15 March 2018 5:09:36 PM
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