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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread

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To: zonder who wrote (788)12/19/2002 12:49:35 PM
From: mistermj  Read Replies (1) of 15987
 
No caveat needed.Its spelled out in plain black and white.
>>or devastation not justified by military necessity;<<

We can argue this point all day.IMO,Truman made the most humane choice possible under extraordinary conditions.

>>(b) War Crimes: namely, violations of the laws or customs of war. Such violations shall include, but not be limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity;<<
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