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To: GST who wrote (198795)	8/23/2006 2:28:50 PM
From: Nikole Wollerstein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"tens of thousands of civilians we have killed in Iraq"" after Sadam was removed by American troops more than million die under Sadam rule What a difference change of regime make!!

To: GST who wrote (198795)	8/23/2006 2:34:08 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Dead people" doesn't equal "war crime". If you go around intentionally massacring civilians than you have committed a war crime, but if you drop a bomb on a group of terrorist attacking American soldiers and a civilian gets hit by shrapnel and is killed, that isn't a war crime. Nor would the dead UN observers who were murdered in cold blood on the orders of the Israeli Prime Minister. It would be kind of hard for a fictional character to actually disagree, although I suppose in the fiction you are writing they could disagree. Since there are/were no dead UN observers who were murdered in cold blood on the order of Olmert, you are talking about fictional characters rather than real people.