09-13-2006, 11:07 PM
Quote:Why is this a bad thing� If someone of power in the US Government/Military service does something worthy of a war crime, they should be dealt with. Let's look at the facts, when it has come to war crimes commited, it has always been an international organization that has held the trials, so why shouldn't the US be just as subject to those trials as anyone else?1. It should be dealt with by the US court system, if the Military Courts can't handle the matter. Soldiers do not give up their status as citizen by donning a uniform. There is ample provision in US Law to prosecute any American in Uniform who commits a crime, and for that matter, any out of uniform who does so. The ICC kangaroo court lacks valid checks and balances that our court system is bound to.
2. War crimes trials are typically "the justice of the victor" and nothing more. To pretend they are fair or just, rather than window dressing in vengeance by lawyer, rather than by lynch mob, strikes me comedy gold. Milosevic and Saddam clearly demonstrate the farcical nature of these so called courts.
Occhi
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete