We should be so proud of our military forces...

[joe-90]

If you knew he was no longer capable of returning fire - then yes.

 

[LastMagicBean]

How would I know that???

 

[joe-90]

He'd stop shooting at you.

 

[pred]

He'd stop shooting at you.

Lee Rigby was not firing a gun at his assailants, he was targeted by Muslim extremist it was not your average everyday murder.

Where was the Geneva convention then?

 

[LastMagicBean]

He'd stop shooting at you.

Nothing to do with it, how would I know he's not capable???

He might be chuckling to himself, waiting for people to go near him so he can blow em up.

 

[joe-90]

Well in the case we are discussing that certainly wasn't the case was it?

 

[ajstoneservices]

No, he was a man dying from a gut wound having been wacked by 30mm shell from an apache. He wasn't going to survive that wound that's for sure.

 

[LastMagicBean]

Well in the case we are discussing that certainly wasn't the case was it?

Wasn't it ???
How wounded, and capable of killing you, can soldiers calculate????

Just wondering where the line is drawn 90.

 

[joe-90]

There isn't one. They were stupid. If they'd left him he would have died of his wounds or later of infection. They did him a favour really, but legally it was murder and that means life in prison.

 

[longdogs]

It was never treated as a terror attack, just a plain old every day murder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Lee_Rigby

 

[LastMagicBean]

They were stupid yeah. Not by killing him though.

Edit....(In answer to 90's post not squeakys.)

 

[joe-90]

It was never treated as a terror attack, just a plain old every day murder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Lee_Rigby[/QUOTE]

Yeah but that's wrong. I remember the day it happened that it was treated as a murder.

 

[Brigadier]

There isn't one. They were stupid. If they'd left him he would have died of his wounds or later of infection. They did him a favour really, but legally it was murder and that means life in prison.

[/i]

I'm not condoning what they did, but in reality, they did almost certainly did him a favour. Now, I fully expect that the next scenario I present would still be classed as murder (and would therefore appreciate learned clarification) - but how would this play out among the media outlets, the hand-wringers, the lawyers.....

Enemy lying wounded, gaping hole in guts. Three Marines approach. "Anyone want to do first aid on him?" Medic assesses situation as hopeless and, seeing fear in what is a young man's eyes, reassures the stricken soldier, before administering a fatal dose of morphine, to ease his suffering.

 

[jeds]

Combat situations have a strange effect on people and history shows that soldiers do things they wouldn't dream of doing in any other situation. But what that marine did was wrong and he knew it. I've a certain sympathy for his situation but I can't defend it.

 

[JBR]

I'm not condoning what they did, but in reality, they did almost certainly did him a favour. Now, I fully expect that the next scenario I present would still be classed as murder (and would therefore appreciate learned clarification) - but how would this play out among the media outlets, the hand-wringers, the lawyers.....

Enemy lying wounded, gaping hole in guts. Three Marines approach. "Anyone want to do first aid on him?" Medic assesses situation as hopeless and, seeing fear in what is a young man's eyes, reassures the stricken soldier, before administering a fatal dose of morphine, to ease his suffering.

Very good point. I'd like to see anyone argue against that.