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To: Ilaine who wrote (131670)	5/5/2004 9:13:48 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 281500

<Right, and the Queen of England is responsible when British foot soldiers smuggle drugs.> No, because the Queen doesn't have control. All she does is enact the electorate's will by appointing the Prime Minister. I'm not sure who in the British political system has control of the military, but I'm pretty sure the Prime Minister is the top person in the chain who is responsible. Then it's back to blaming the electorate for appointing the politician. To assign culpability for crimes, an investigator would need to work their way up the chain of command to see who was or wasn't giving the right orders and ensuring compliance by audits of management requirements. So, in the case of the Cow prisons in Iraq, one would ask who was doing the ordering and auditing of prison conditions. Presumably the USA military command invited the UN and Amnesty International and Red Cross and others in to interview prisoners to ensure that compliance with humanitarian ethics was the order of the day. They didn't? Oh heck, I wonder why not. I bet King George II is on the case now and has ordered that UN, AI and Red Cross have access to ensure things are kosher [to coin a phrase]. Mqurice

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