hi, Did any one say the US system works based on logic :-) The news here is that on an average one US soidler dies per day to a iraqi sniper particlually in crowded areas where you cant blow of a whole builiding immediately.Maybe this is the wierd logic that the iraqi's follow.Even they too have the right to follow their own logic. Only problem is that innocent soldiers on both sides are the sufferers due to a bunch of intelligent people who say they are doing it in national interest while they are doing it for themselves in both nations. Sarath. --- Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com> wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2998870.stm "With Iraq's judicial system in disarray after the end of the war, Paul Bremer said a special criminal court would be set up. He said the court would try people, "in particular senior Baathists... may have committed crimes against the coalition, who are
situation"."
So you invade a country, and the patriots who resist you are no longer soldiers, even guerillas, but "criminals" to be
At 06:15 PM 06/17/2003 -0500, Harmon Seaver wrote: trying to destabilise the tried in the US's weird new
courts, probably secretly with no representation.
Yup. And USA Today was referring to the US military reserve soldiers who were sent there as "Citizen Soldiers", but of course *Iraqis* who fought the invaders weren't "citizen soldiers", they were "terrorists" or "illegal combatants" or "evil" or "failing to act sufficiently French by surrendering".
And since the US Constitution doesn't apply to US forces operating outside the US, there's no prohibition against "ex post facto" laws about "crimes against the coalition", and of course the Bush Administration bullied Brussels into exempting their armed forces from war crimes laws.
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