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If a battered wife or rape victim is too afraid to bring charges, does it absolve the perpetrator?
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Mere rhetoric. Any number of countries could have brought charges against America, none did.
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The war against Iraq was undoubtedly a war of aggression.
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What war isn't?
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Waging a war of aggression is a crime under customary international law and refers to any war waged not out of self-defense or sanctioned by the UN.
The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which followed World War II, called the waging of aggressive war "essentially an evil thing...to initiate a war of aggression...is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
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Again, no charges have been brought against the US by any organisation or nation against either the US or any other coalition partner, so quoting un-cited wiki articles isn't really germane.
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The "Unlawful use of force" is legal speak for international terrorism.
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No it's not.