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Showing Original Post only (View all)IF USA Cares About Int'l War Crimes Law-We Would Do Better By Delivering Cheney To The Hague-Instead [View all]
Either it's worth taking a side in the Syrian civil war, or it isn't. Either it's worth the blood and treasure to end the conflict and hold the war criminals to account, or it isn't. Bombing a country to prove a point about observing internationally sanctioned methods of killing seems unjustifiable. If the United States is less intent on saving lives in Syria than on proving to the United Nations how much we care about observing international war crimes law, we would do better to begin by delivering Dick Cheney to the Hague, instead.
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IF USA Cares About Int'l War Crimes Law-We Would Do Better By Delivering Cheney To The Hague-Instead [View all]
kpete
Aug 2013
OP
It would have far more meaning, IMHO, if our own DoJ prosecuted Cheney and other
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#48
And yet, the entire world (except for Russia and China) expect us to doing something
FSogol
Aug 2013
#31
For using Chemical Weapons in Fallujah alone. The number of babies being born
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#23
One can use the same arguments vis-a-vis Bush/Cheney war crimes and Assad's alleged use of CW
Maedhros
Aug 2013
#27