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To: Sultan who wrote (82516)	3/16/2003 12:56:04 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

tu quoque: The principle to be followed with Iraqi WMD, was established at the Nuremburg trials after WWII. When the Germans were accused of doings things like killings hundreds of thousands of allied prisoners, by working them to death, starving them, or putting them in ovens, they replied, "Our defense is that hundreds of thousands of German POWs went into the Soviet Gulags, where most of them died. We've done nothing that you haven't done, so you can't try us, unless you try Soviets also. American warplanes turned many German cities into large open-air crematoria, so you can't punish us for Dachau." And so on. This is the "tu quoque" defense, which means, "And you, too." The Russians, Americans, and French made no attempt to defend or justify anything they had done in the war. They simply dis-allowed the "tu quoque" defense, and made all evidence of their own war crimes inadmissible. This established the basic principle, that only evidence of loser's crimes will see the light of day.