{"id":49613,"date":"2015-02-18T06:16:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T13:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/18\/none-dare-call-it-war-crime-but-treason-is-okay.html"},"modified":"2015-05-13T12:19:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T18:19:44","slug":"none-dare-call-it-war-crime-but-treason-is-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/18\/none-dare-call-it-war-crime-but-treason-is-okay.html","title":{"rendered":"None Dare Call It War Crime (but Treason is okay)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lovable Ben Carson, who has been tapped by some for being a maverick outsider in the conservative wing of potential GOP presidential candidates in 2016, keeps demonstrating why he needs to be kept far, far away from the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

In the article below, he apparently endorses a blind eye against war crimes committed by US soldiers in times of war (in the context of sending troops to Syria and Iraq): <\/p>\n

"And our military needs to know that they're not going to be prosecuted when they come back because somebody has said you did something that was politically incorrect. There's no such thing as a politically correct war. We need to grow up. We need to mature. If you're going to have rules for war, you should just have a rule that says no war. Other than that, we have to win. Our life depends on it."<\/i><\/p>\n

Certainly read on the face of it, Carson seems to be stating that if you decide to go to war, then no holds barred, and none of that "politically correct" Geneva Convention "rules of war" kind of thing. I mean, war crimes, shwar crimes,<\/i> right? Our boys are fighting a hypothetical war,<\/i> goshdarnit, and bad things happen in war, but we're fighting for right and survival, so anything goes.<\/p>\n

Just what Jesus would do, no doubt.<\/p>\n

Of course, as am apparent hawk on security matters, he also just suggested that if Obama (not the Congress but the President) plays games with the Department of Homeland Security funding bill over his "executive amnesty program," if he should "… stand in the way, particularly to things that are vital to the security of this country, then I think we can start talking about treason. […] If things are done that are contrary to the security of this country, whoever does them is guilty of treason"<\/i> (http:\/\/goo.gl\/1S8IVv<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Let me correct myself: Mr Carson needs to be kept far away from Capitol Hill, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nBen Carson: No rules against ‘politically incorrect’ acts of war<\/a><\/span>
\n“We need to grow up. We need to mature,” the neurosurgeon says.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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