the Geneva Convention

And so, I have at last finished the most disturbing book ever written. 'The Great War for Civilisation,The Conquest of the Middle East' by Robert Fisk. As with any good book though, I want more though, I tried to find the Geneva Convention on Amazon, but no luck so far. From an early age the Geneva Convention was something I looked up to and admired.At that time I was reading the Warlord and Battle comics. They dealt with the first and second world wars. I looked up to the fairness and bravery of the British Tommy and the American GI s liberating Europe and Asia from the dastardly Germans and Japanese.They would never stoop so low as to hurt civilians or mistreat POWS. These were comics , but although romanticizing war, they depicted an all too real war. I lived next to Belsen, and this seemed relevant to me. I saw what happened when humanities rules were not followed(through the museum and mass graves).
What happened?
How did it come to pass that we have become the Germans, bombing civilians, raping women, occupying foreign lands that don't want us. We are not there by invitation. We have been responsible for the deaths of millions now in the 3 wars of the Middle East. The weapons of mass destruction were never there, Saddam is dead. We did not find Bin Laden, the civilians who have died in Afghanistan had nothing to do with Al Queda. The uranium that we have dropped in the weapons on civilians, and the sanctions regime have now been directly responsible for the death of at a conservative estimate at least 1 million children!
The only government structure still intact in Iraq is the ministry for oil!!
Our soldiers are not the enemy, they do their governments bidding, but the American and British governments are the enemies of everything we stood for post world war.
As for Israel, they continue to flout UN resolutions(strange how when Iraq flouted UN resolutions in 1990 we used them as a justification for war), and what's more brazenly flout the Geneva Convention.
All of this from 3 'civilized' nations, who in the years following World War ii were able to bring the world together to make a promise that we would never live the dark days of the first half of the 19th century.
Bring on the Revolution, let's get rid of all these fuckwits that call themselves our representatives,our leaders!!


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