American military on trial

[gurr8]

It may not have been possible to put Bush on trial for war crimes, but it appears that the policies will be on trial nonetheless.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/natio...gee041206.html

[BeautifulLoser]

Maybe you posted the wrong link, but that story has nothing to do with anyone getting put on trial for anything.

[gurr8]

Sorry, I heard the story this morning on CBC Radio 1...I made the assumption that their written story would contain the same info.


http://www.sundayherald.com/46409

Jeremy Hinzman
I didn’t want to be implicit in a criminal enterprise and hence a war criminal. It has been evident in light of Abu Ghraib and other things that the soldiers who pay the price for the policies that come from on high are the enlisted soldiers.

Basically his original argument was that the Iraq invasion was illegal, but the Crown had that argument thrown out as irrelevant to the case.
So now the entire case is based on the idea that the American military has committed war crimes(easy to prove) and that they are systemic (hard to prove).

[BeautifulLoser]

"Since we can’t discuss legality we are going to try to show that the atrocious acts that are taking place in Iraq are not anomalies or isolated incidents but part of a plan of attack, if you will."

This is why it will fail.

I'm not saying there aren't atrocious acts committed in Iraq, because it's a damn war, and I'm not saying they're justified, but claiming that the US has a plan of attack that involves war crimes is just ludicrious.