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To: Neocon who wrote (796)	12/19/2002 1:31:32 PM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

You could be right from a philosophical point of view. However from a legal point of view, the wording is pretty clear: "murder (etc) of civilian population" and "wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages" is a "war crime". The former is actually a "crime against humanity". ------------------------------------------------- dannen.com Nuremberg Principles, August 8, 1945 CHARTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL AUGUST 8, 1945 [Signatories: USA, USSR, Britain, France] (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; (c) Crimes against humanity: namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian populations, before or during the war; or prosecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated. --------------------------------------------------