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Murderers.

Troops killing civilians, no matter what rules they follow, are murderers...

One person killing someone else not threatening or assaulting them (or others under their protection) is a murderer - wether or not they happen to be obeying their own rules (any damn jackal can write their own rules).

Oh sure, we're all adults and know that the exigencies of war sometimes have unpleasant consequences. It's a fact of the violence that bystanders are going to be caught up in the carnage. But that really doesn't wash if there was never a good cause for the 'war' in the first place, does it?

It especially doesn't wash if the reason innocents are being obliterated is because invaders and thugs use overwhelming and extensively destructive force because it keeps themselves safe. A pilot who drops a bomb from the safety of his aircraft in uncontested airspace thousands of feet in the air and by happenstance kills innocents off to the side of an intended target that posed no threat whatsoever to his family, nation or even his damned dog is a no good murdering thug.

"Under their protection" I said. So yeah, it looks like people have wriggle room to justify their actions. But they're not fooling me.