A Few Bad Apples

[dcan]

It's not that contact will spike immediately because of this. It's that people who would be on the fence about choosing sides will be influenced by this to choose the other side. This is the military equivalent of putting cyanide in your Tylenol. "See, the Taliban were right, the Americans are a bunch of pigs!"

BTW where exactly are you receiving contact every 15 minutes? Even when I monitored SIGACTS and MIRC I never saw anything even remotely approaching that across the entire region, let alone one location.

Here's a short list of why they are screwed for what they did.

Geneva Convention IV
Article 16, second paragraph, of the 1949 Geneva Convention IV provides: “As far as military considerations allow, each Party to the conflict shall facilitate the steps taken … to protect [the killed] against … ill-treatment.”

Additional Protocol I
Article 34(1) of the 1977 Additional Protocol I provides: “The remains of persons who have died for reasons related to occupation or in detention resulting from occupation or hostilities … shall be respected”.

Geneva Convention is binding on the US. LOAC goes further than Geneva Convention in many cases. LOAC compliance is mandatory for all troops.

Article 91 UCMJ
Any person subject to this chapter who—

(1) strikes his superior commissioned officer or draws or lifts up any weapon or offers any violence against him while he is in the execution of his office; or

(2) willfully disobeys a lawful command of his superior commissioned officer; shall be punished, if the offense is committed in time of war, by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct, and if the offense is committed at any other time, by such punishment, other than death, as a court-martial may direct.

Article 91 UCMJ
Any warrant officer or enlisted member who—

(1) strikes or assaults a warrant officer, non-commissioned officer, or petty officer, while that officer is in the execution of his office;

(2) willfully disobeys the lawful order of a warrant officer, noncommissioned officer, or petty officer; or

(3) treats with contempt or is disrespectful in language or deportment toward a warrant officer, noncommissioned officer, or petty officer while that officer is in the execution of his office; shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Article 92 UCMJ
Any person subject to this chapter who—

(1) violates or fails to obey any lawful general order or regulation;

(2) having knowledge of any other lawful order issued by a member of the armed forces, which it is his duty to obey, fails to obey the order; or

(3) is derelict in the performance of his duties; shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

General Order #1 4 Apr 2009 Section 3 "Prohibited Activities"
f. Photographing or filming detainees or human casualties, as well as the possession, distribution, transfer, copying, or posting, whether electronically or physically, of visual images depicting detainees or human casualties.