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Originally Posted by billybob123
This is the most irritating fallacy of the Khadr case. Christopher Speer (the guy he allegedly killed, which, by the way, is up for debate - no witnesses) was NOT a medic. He was a special forces operative who was trained in combat medicine. The media constantly implies that Speer was an innocent medic - he wasn't. He was as much a combattant as everyone says Khadr was.
That being said, there's no way Khadr gets a fair trial, so I suppose I see why he's going to plead guilty. |
This is a "like duh" moment....
All medics are given combat training. All of them. There isn't enough medical students and nurses signing up for the military so they also give some volunteers paramedical training.
Now let take this a step further. Special Ops/ forces. To get into that you need to be able to pass the training. Special forces need medics too. Hence if no one with medical training get through the course then someone needs to be given medical training...as in becoming a MEDIC.
Speer was a medic. Period. Though I suspect that all Special forces receive medical training there would be people that would have more. Medics are combatants. Omar should be held up against a wall and shot.