Kill em all

This defies logic: By remaining perfectly still you are being hostile. Orwell is pounding on his casket right now.

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Accordingly, it was reasonable to believe that the corporal fired on the AIF
after reasonably believing that the individual was committing a hostile act" by
feigning death and subsequently moving his concealed arm.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/05/05/falluja.marine/index.html

I thought that if the enemy was wounded you were to provide medical treatment to him, not shoot him because he’s not dead yet. Can you IMAGINE THE OUTRAGE if an Iraqi did this to an American solider?

To repeat:

the individual was committing a hostile act" by feigning death