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Originally posted by SimeyTheLimey: First of all, the ICC has no retroactive jurisdiction. So it couldn't have indicted him for nerge gassing civilians. Secondly, he was a high-ranking military officer, which made him a legitimate military target under the laws of war. |
But I'm sure some humanrights court should have. My point was that even if it was "justified" it shows that we have no interest in getting these men alive. The reason.... Perhaps because these men could bring up some ugly facts about the western support they got while murdering Kurds and Iranians. I'm not stating this as fact, I'm just speculating. I'm tired of this rightousness we are showing now because of what the Iraqis did back in the 80's. We supported them at that time, we did absolutly nothing to help the Kurds at that time, so why now? Why the sudden rush when we did absolutly nothing to help the victims of Halabja and in fact some tried to pin it at the Iranians? Do you really think the Kurds like the US&UK and other western nations?
One last question. Would W be a legitimate military target since he is commander-in-chief(or something like that)?