As a general comment, it seems to me that the question of what is and is not a war crime is in the eye of the beholder.
War is a ghastly business.
The
Süddeutsche Zeitung, which somebody links to above, is a pro-NATO propaganda rag.
I take the position that all alleged war crimes - of any side - are a hoax unless demonstrated otherwise. We must additionally bear in mind that it is in the nature of modern warfare that the battle zone coincides with civilian living space, therefore collateral civilian casualties are inevitable in conflict zones.
Armies don't meet on fields out of the way, dressed in gentleman's tunics and firing muskets. That stopped quite a while ago.
I repeat: war is horrible. We are very, very lucky in Britain to have lived out our lives in such a relatively stable society and I curse those politicians and members of the public - including certain people on this Forum - who want to introduce needless conflict and instability into our lives by interfering in complex matters they are almost-entirely ignorant of, all so that they can parade round as people of sanctimonious virtue.
Sorry if this offends anybody here, but in matters of foreign policy and defence, I am an aggressive neutralist. I think we could have learned something from the Swiss, who until recently wisely kept their noses out of other people's business.
You do Gringo a grave injustice. It is a pity he is not here now because he would rip you apart!
I will echo this. Gringo did baffle me on one occasion when he made an entirely unprovoked and unhinged attack on me, completely out-of-the-blue, because I questioned something said by Craig Murray. Nevertheless, we badly could do with some diversity of opinion on current affairs rather than a regurgitation of the mainstream media line on everything.
