<Saddam had MONTHS to comply, or surrender. He chose not to do either, and is DIRECTLY to blame for every single casualty, no matter which side it came from. >
That's absurd. Though under Might Makes Right laws of the jungle, under which we still live, the victors can declare any absurdity they like and declare anyone they like to be guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes, etc.
The people responsible for somebody's death are the people who worked to make it happen. That would include the person who pulled the trigger, the aimer, the target selector, the negligent person who didn't bother to correctly put the 'smart' in the smart bomb and produced a stupid bomb. Etc.
If some American soldier casually shot an innocent woman or child because he realized he could get away with it in the convenient 'fog' of battle and happened to have such a malevolent state of mind and wanted to get revenge for the 11 September attacks, and you can be sure there are at least a few viciously horrible people concealed in the gun-firing ranks, then he is solely guilty of the crime, not Saddam and not his USA commanding officers.
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