Posted on 04/14/2003 4:48:38 PM PDT by GulliverSwift
LAWYERS from British and US organisations are looking at the possibility of an international inquiry into war crimes that their governments might have committed in Iraq.
"We want to establish regular and impartial procedures to establish whether war crimes have been committed," said Phil Shiner, of the British group Public Interest Lawyers.
Shiner spoke at a news conference where Michael Ratner, president of the US Centre for Constitutional Rights, warned that the principle of "victor's justice" was legally unacceptable.
"It is not only Saddam's crimes that have to be examined," he said today.
The regime of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein collapsed under a fierce military onslaught led by the United States and Britain.
"We do not know if war crimes have been committed," Ratner said. But he added: "We should examine why so many people could have been killed on one side."
Shiner said the use of cluster bombs and ammunition containing depleted uranium in densely populated areas might breach the Geneva Convention and the UN Charter.
They and other instruments of international humanitarian law insisted on discrimination between military targets and civilians, he said.
Roger Normand, executive director of the Committee on Economic and Social Rights in New York, noted that under international law it was also "very clear that the United States has no legal basis to exploit Iraq's oil".
He recalled that the United States itself had reaffirmed that position when it did not allow Israel to extract oil from Sinai in eastern Egypt when it seized the peninsula.
Agence France-Presse
Michael Moore is also going to setup proceedings to find out the guy whole stole his cream pie and roiled him up.
Here's how this sentence goes:
I'm one of many
who vote for the Democratic party. I'm also a fat white man. Also, it's questionable whether I qualify to be a man....... Oh well, at least I'm white, stupid and fat.
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Related to Ellen? Figures.
What the @#%^ do these people know about Constitutional rights?
DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH!!! I wish I had a little friend, a little friend to pet and play with. I would love him and squeeze him and pet him, and pet him...DUUUUUUUUUUUUH!
Jeez, how much more stupid can you get, than to ask a stupid freakin' question like that? And they want to form an "impartial" inquiry.
Can we buy this guy a freakin' clue?
Where were these bozos during Saddam's rule? Rawanda? Bosnia? Kosovo? Or i42's rule?
Why is it the impotent and guilty bark the loudest?
5.56mm
BUNCH of RDDBs! ARRRRG!
Firemen are firemen are firemen. They don't care about your race, color, creed, age, bank account, political party or anything else about you if you need help. And I can say that about firemen of any race, color, creed, age, bank account, political party or any other distinction.
So why did the peace marchers in NYC, who claim they are patriotic, start calling firemen 'fascists" on the apparatus they surrounded and stopped in Manhattan?
Why? Because they are NOT Patriotic!
To the lurking jerks of the loonie left, what does a fireman do that you hate?
Just drop the second syllable from his surname to get the proper description of this low-life anti-American vermin.
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