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To: SARMAN who wrote (211998)	1/8/2007 2:22:35 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Saddam killed millions of people. Should he have been tried for every million? Were all those deaths against existing Iraqi law? The crime of "genocide" is a violation of international law. International tribunals exist to try powerful men for crimes they are too powerful to be prosecuted for in their own countries, e.g., Milosovic. Ever since the Nuremberg trials, legal scholars have questioned the jurisdiction of those tribunals to prosecute defendants for crimes which did not exist before that trial. A man orders the deaths of his fellow countrymen, which violates the laws of his own country, he should be tried in his own country for breaking those laws, if it can be done. Murder, just plain murder, is sufficient to hang him.