Power plants and bridges *can* be legitimate military targets but it depends on the objective. Donnie's rants rather suggest he's doing it to make the Iranian people suffer, rather than, say, to cut off supply lines to a military front.

And we certainly have no legitimate claim to the oil he says he will steal.

Donnie enjoys watching suffering. He gets off to it.

Thanks for the reply.

Legal Experts letter published this week:

https://www.justsecurity.org/135423/professors-letter-international-law-iran-war/

Appreciate it. I am doing Easter with family right now, but I'll look at this tonight and digest it.

we should add the prohibition of collective punishment and reprisals against innocent people. Our insane leaders seek to inflict devastation on the civilian population because the Iranian leadership does not agree to whatever insane demands our leaders have made. This is collective punishment of the civilian population. These illegal actions for no military objective constitute a war crime.

This entire war is utter bullshit

But no one is stopping it. Makes me furious that he gets away with it.

Due to the complete corruption of every single member of the republican party.

Also, bombing civilian power infrastructure for the purpose of terrorizing the population is a war crime.

Nuclear power sites can be destroyed/bombed but there are added rules about it due to the dangers in doing so.

If America cared about committing war crimes, it would not have tortured people under Bush and/or people would have been held accountable as evidence that it did give a fuck. No accountability, no fucks to give.

I can't see why Trump wouldn't get away with war crimes either. If you can torture people and get away with it, you can pretty much engage in any atrocity and get away with it.

Other countries can't stop Trump with rules, regulations or laws.

He'd have to respect said laws, to begin with - and the U.S. would have to be part of some sort of agreement that it actually adheres to and respects.

No simply pays lip service to, like CAT/GC, but actually respects and obeys.

Agreed and stipulated that Trump doesn't give a shit, and that he is pushing the line to see what and how much he can get away with. Honestly? He's the first and only person that I know of in all my many years that I have actually wished would die. Because the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.

But at some point, it is going to have to be stopped. Just like Hitler...at some point, there was a drop dead situation.

We may all be dead before that happens, but it will happen.

But, yeah, something must be done and done soonest.

I wonder why, then, what we did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki wasn't considered a war crime.

It's kind of an oxymoron as it's a fairly ridiculous concept.

It's a recent phenomenon. Maybe in the late 19th Century the concept of rules of war was developed... and wasn't organized until Nuremberg. (unless you count ancient Roman rituals of asking Gods for war powers)

Sort of like "military intelligence" and, a conscience soother to make waging war somehow less uncivilized.

And yes, the "rules" have changed since WW2.