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Old 09-14-2007, 06:13 AM   #52 (permalink)
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If a battered wife or rape victim is too afraid to bring charges, does it absolve the perpetrator?
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.
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."
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.
No it's not.
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