Originally Posted by Packrat

I guess you meant "uninformed." However, you're Freudian slip indicates your bias is that the "boots on the ground" can do no wrong. Or that, somehow, calling in an airstrike on a known hospital is somehow justified by the "fog of war."

You would be completely wrong. Until Vietnam at least, American soldiers didn't commit war crimes. Lt. Calley came along and slaughtered an entire village of innocent people. Is it any wonder that the returning soldiers were met with the epithet "baby killers."

Then along comes Dick Cheney and his neocons who convinced their little puppet, George that it was entirely legal to torture prisoners as long as they were Muslim. Heck, we can even fly them to countries where its allowed. I guess they forgot that when the Japanese used the waterboard, it was the U.S. that cried "War Crime!".

So now its OK to bomb a known hospital staffed by foreign doctors because you suspect there are enemy combatants inside.

Its exactly that attitude that will turn the public against the military just like it did in Vietnam. And I hope NEVER to experience that again. 99% of the guys in the military serve with honor and should be treated as such. Then some knucklehead does something like this and the entire military gets a black eye.

And the excuse, "Sure a hospital got hit, but it was staffed by a bunch of French bleeding heart liberals" doesn't hold water.

Its a war crime and someone needs to get prosecuted for it or American credibility goes right out the window.