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Racenut20

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Mon May-31-04 01:57 PM
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Is this true?

That the biggest reason for a "sovereign" turnover of Iraq on June 30th is because the Shrub administration cannot get enough UN Security Council votes to extend a resolution that would exempt the occupying forces from charges of war crimes? Would this include the US Government as well as the Military?

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TrogL

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Mon May-31-04 01:59 PM
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1. The Dubya administration doesn't care about war crimes

They've already said they would invade Holland if a US soldier was brought in front of the War Crimes council in The Hague.

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Dying Eagle

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Mon May-31-04 02:00 PM
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2. do u have a link to that?

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TrogL

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Mon May-31-04 04:13 PM
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10. There's this

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040514/wl_nm/iraq_abuse_court_dc_1

I've been looking for the link about the invasion thing.

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Deja Q

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Mon May-31-04 02:01 PM
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3. More bully tactics from people who shouldn't be in control of lint.

Petty and despicable, the bully's* attempt to intimidate other nations.

And inevitable. At some point an American will stand in front of the War Crimes council. The way things keep heading, that is inevitable.

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Eric J in MN

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Mon May-31-04 02:03 PM
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4. The Geneva Conventions speaks of the responsilities of an

Edited on Mon May-31-04 02:04 PM by Eric J in MN

The Geneva Conventions speaks of the responsibiliies of an Occupying Power .

So the fictional "sovereignty" may be an attempt to escape those responsibilities.

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TheFarseer

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Mon May-31-04 02:07 PM
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5. No one outside this site

is talking about war crimes trials for Bushco. Maybe that's a stretch, but no one with any power is seriously considering it.

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nadinbrzezinski

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Mon May-31-04 02:28 PM
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6. I would not be that sure

But they will not come immedaitely... it will take time

Oh and notes are being taken bu those who would be doing
the prosecuting.

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NNN0LHI

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Mon May-31-04 02:57 PM
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8. Better start reading

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=us%2Bwar+crimes%2Biraq&btnG=Google+Search

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Karenina

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Mon May-31-04 02:54 PM
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7. See:

Status of Forces Agreement.

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amjsjc

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Mon May-31-04 04:06 PM
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9. No

The reason they're handing over soverignty is because they want to convince the Iraqi's that we are not, in fact, occupying their country (which will be a little hard since there'll still be 140,000 American soldiers milling about...)

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