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Reply #15 - Sep 23^rd, 2004 at 6:01pm

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Let's not forget the Belgrano

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/813118.stm

Almost without doubt an illegal act of war....

No war is clean. & no war has ever or will ever stick to the rules of either Geneva or the Hague Conventions.

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Reply #16 - Sep 23^rd, 2004 at 7:08pm

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Belgrano was a warship Pete...even if outside the exclusion Zone.

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Reply #17 - Sep 24^th, 2004 at 4:13am

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The Belgrano was also steaming towards the exclusion zone........ therefore a threat. Ok it turned round but was still a threat .......

And if we want to talk illegal acts of war ....... well .... NOPE ... I'm not gonna get political.

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Reply #18 - Sep 24^th, 2004 at 4:31am

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No war is clean. & no war has ever or will ever stick to the rules of either Geneva or the Hague Conventions.

Agreed. War is not some sort of game. It can bring out the best & worst in the human race. I never understood how rules or the law could be associated with it.

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Reply #19 - Sep 24^th, 2004 at 4:32am

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I'd have said the invasion was illegal, and frankly the situation was inevitable.
Alas its always the young men that go out to do, the politicians sit safely at home Angry

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Reply #20 - Oct 2^nd, 2004 at 5:29am

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What a coincidence - I attended an informal chat with Simon Weston the other day - he was very frank and open with his views on the war and the people that fought it.

An excellent evening...

Charlie

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Reply #21 - Oct 5^th, 2004 at 11:45pm

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Agreed. War is not some sort of game. It can bring out the best & worst in the human race. I never understood how rules or the law could be associated with it.

I've always thought the concept of Rules of War to be an oxymoron in itself. Tongue