Lets not forget about the millions that Germany was raking in, building Saddam's bomb shelters and the billions that France was making selling arms to Iraq.
Loathe wrote: > Umm, without uniforms and ID cards these people do not have rights under the > Geneva convention. > > They don't even count as an unorganized insurgency because they do not wear > readily identifiable markings on their clothes. > > They are saboteurs and spies and can be executed at any point.. That is > under international law. > > If you wanted to argue the invasion, all you have to do is say that > Saddaam's regime didn't meet the terms of his cease fire and surrender. The > end. He didn't. BTW, allowing the inspectors full access was part of the > cease fire. The U.N. should have backed our play and if they had, and we > were able to build the coalition we did the first time around things would > have gone very different. Instead the Germans, Russians and French were to > busy lining their pockets with oil for food money. > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Michael Grant [Modus I.S.] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 9:30 AM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: RE: Ship Of Fools >> >> War Crime: >> >> Crimes committed against an enemy, prisoners of war, or >> subjects in wartime that violate international agreements or, >> as in the case of genocide, are offenses against humanity. >> Acts committed by soldiers or government officials, either in >> the course of a war or in bringing on a war, that violate the >> customs of warfare. Examples of war crimes include atrocities >> committed against civilians and the mistreatment of prisoners of war. >> >> Oh... wait, that's right. You need to declare war before you >> can technically have a prisoner of war or commit a war crime. >> No need to follow the Geneva Convention. Guantanamo Bay is >> lawful, since technically it's not full of prisoners of war. >> It's a vacation retreat for misplaced Muslims. >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:281487 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
