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To: Hoplite; LIBERTARIAN JOE

I believe our pilots are by and large quite safe from war crime charges, unless they went beyond their orders like those that realized who the real enemy was when they bombed Albania.

As far as Wesley goes... was he culpable of making policy? Or, does Bill, like Hitler before him, get all the credit?

“Both tribunals [Nurnberg, tokyo] stated in their judgments that to unleash a war of aggression “is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime. But both tribunals emphasized that only persons actually formulating or influencing governmental policy can be charged with “crimes against peace. For example, the Tokyo judgment declared that “the duty of an army is to be loyal. Hence, neither privates nor generals of an aggressor nation can be blamed if they “merely performed their military duty of fighting a war waged by their government, as long as they did not personally participate in the making of the policy of aggression.”


29 posted on 10/28/2007 11:22:32 PM PDT by F-117A (Mr. Bush, have someone read UN Resolution 1244 to you!!!)
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To: F-117A
As far as Wesley goes... was he culpable of making policy?

He (Clark) certainly could be made culpable - just as much as Herman Goering was, or, for that matter, so could Henry Kissinger.

And, well, so it goes.

31 posted on 10/29/2007 2:11:05 AM PDT by LjubivojeRadosavljevic
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To: F-117A
Stupid is as stupid does.

It's all fun and games so long as you ignore the fact that the Serbs were targeting civilians on a personal face-to-face level and filling clandestine mass graves in Serbia with the fruits of their ethnic cleansing campaign.

Which is why Kosovo's final status isn't going to be fun and games for you and your friends.

33 posted on 10/29/2007 10:31:35 AM PDT by Hoplite
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