weird logic

[Sarad AV]

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 at pobox.com> wrote:
> At 06:15 PM 06/17/2003 -0500, Harmon Seaver 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
> trying to destabilise the
> >situation"."
> >
> >    So you invade a country, and the patriots who
> resist you are no longer
> >soldiers, even guerillas, but "criminals" to be
> 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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