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From: twheeler@cbnewsj.att.com (theodore wheeler)
Newsgroups: misc.headlines,trial.talk.politics.peace,talk.politics.mideast,alt.desert-storm,alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Missing in Action
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.183742.21018@cbnewsj.att.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 18:37:42 GMT
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In article <9103132214.879@mydog.UUCP> gcf@mydog.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes:
>How many Iraqis were killed in the recent Gulf War?  Fifty
>thousand, a hundred thousand, two hundred thousand?  Nobody
>knows for sure.  One of the reasons is that the United States
>has chosen to violate the Geneva Convention in regard to the
>Iraqi dead.  According to the Geneva Convention, the party in
>control of a given territory after combat is responsible for
>making its best effort to find, count, and identify the
>casualties of its adversary, including the dead.  The U.S.
>command has made it clear that it has no intention of doing so.
>Many of the Iraqi dead were simply bulldozed into mass graves
>without any attempt to count them, much less identify them, and
>with no reports made or asked for.
>
Fitch, you unmitigated moron, graves registration units of all
the services are right now combing the desert for dead Iraqis.
Each body is identified as closely as possible, then buried
with a marker.  Most of the Iraqi soldiers carried dog tags
just as ours do.  The location of each marker is redorded on a
map of the area.  The compiled lists of the known dead and any
that cannot be identified are turned over to the International
Red Cross and to the International Red Crescent.  This is
all according to the Geneva Convention.  If you would get your
nose out of theat hate literature once in awhile, you could
have observed the procedure right there on TV, or in the
newspapers.  Further, there are teams of doctors and medics
combing the desert for wounded survivors.  They are treated
and taken to US medical facilities in the region.  As a matter
of fact, at least two doctors have been killed and several
medics wounded when they stepped on mines while trying to
take care of Iraqi wounded.

According to the Geneva Convention, the dead are supposed to be
buried as soon as possible right on the battlefield.  Look
it up.  They must be identified first and their gaves marked.

Get a life Fitch, you might be able to buffalo a few kids who
never read or listen to the news, but you can't pull this kind
of hate diareha on the rest of us.

T. C.