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To: Elsewhere who wrote (68740)	1/25/2003 3:30:48 PM
From: stockman_scott	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<<...U.S. lawyers warn Bush, Rumsfeld, on war crimes...>> Jochen: I sure hope they pay attention...The folks against this war (I mean misguided military adventure) are coming from all sectors...This is the time for patient and prudent leadership...It's NOT surprising that many in the military are starting to question The War Hawk's aggressive push to go to war -- The case has NOT successfully been made to many important stakeholders (throughout the U.S. and abroad). alertnet.org <<...NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A group of U.S. law professors opposed to a possible war on Iraq warned U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday that he and senior government officials could be prosecuted for war crimes if military tactics violated international humanitarian law. "Our primary concern ... is the large number of civilian casualties that may result should U.S. and coalition forces fail to comply with international humanitarian law in using force against Iraq," the group, led by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a letter to Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The group cited the particular need for U.S. and coalition forces to abide by humanitarian law requiring warring parties to distinguish between military and civilian areas, use only the level of force that is militarily necessary and to use weaponry that is proportionate to what is being targeted. The letter, which had more than 100 signatories, said the rules had been broken in other recent wars...>>