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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (81987)	10/5/2006 10:42:09 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 362366

I submit that at least some who were hanged at Nuremburg were less guilty of war crimes than the people who brought us Iraq. Republicans in Congress maintain that any objections to these breaches of international law and basic decency "coddle" terrorists. For obvious political reasons, advance word is that trials in some cases could begin in synch with next month's elections. The Nuremberg Charter enumerated four crimes. In highlighted form, these were: # Conspiracy to wage war of aggression; # Actual launching of aggressive war; # Killing, plundering and destroying in a war not justified by militarily necessity; and # Crimes against humanity. Arguably, the invasion of Iraq fails to rise to the level of crimes against humanity revealed at Nuremberg. As long as the world draws a moral distinction between shoving children into gas chambers versus chalking up their unintended deaths in an unnecessary war to "collateral damage," that debate will continue. But the first three counts speak for themselves. And I submit that at least some who were hanged at Nuremburg were less guilty of war crimes than the people who brought us Iraq. seattlepi.nwsource.com