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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (184659)	4/6/2006 1:09:13 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

Hawk, I believe the USA isn't a signatory to the International Criminal Court and there isn't a mechanism to prosecute King George II for war crimes: <Differ all you want, but no one has hung GWBjr up in front of an International Tribune for being a war criminal.> Being in charge of the military, it's sloppy at best to have allowed underlings to conduct cruelty to death in various concentration camps for enemy aliens, or reprisal killings of families in their houses as was done recently as a result of the roadside bomb attack. Were instructions not clear enough? I suppose they thought they could get away with it and indeed the military covered it up. Just as they covered up the killing of Tillman. The intention of the military was to commit crimes and not have them disclosed. I think that makes the chain of command culpable. Just as Saddam and Milosevic are culpable. Okay, it's a matter of degree, but I dare say the people who have dead children/mother/niece etc as a result of reprisal attack covered up don't care that the genocide wasn't as successful as the Nazis on the Jews. One is too many. One thousand or one million doesn't increase the suffering or criminality per capita or the fact of the war crime. Being the harbinger of human rights, freedom, democracy and all that great cant means standards have to be held very high, or those fine words can be replaced by, simply, "hypocrisy". One should remember that one innocent person killed or injured has 100 or maybe 500 who will feel quite closely affected and will be angry. It's not just the dead person out of the way and home for dinner and a laugh about it. Mqurice