04-07-2017, 03:45 PM
(04-07-2017, 02:04 PM)Au165 Wrote: Under the Rome statute this particular case does not pass muster as it was clearly excessive to the military gain we achieved. The U.S. lied about it to start claiming it was an accident, but eventually conceded it was intentional. They lied because they knew that the gains were not enough to justify the collateral damage. Small arms fire does not require a flattening of a civilian hospital. We ended up paying off the families of all the casualties because we weren't justified in killing them.
With the additional details you provided (if true, and I don't know if they are or aren't) would indicate our actions were not in keeping with the law of land warfare as taught to me.
