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American War Criminals

“A prima facie case can be made that the United States is guilty of the supreme crime against humanity, that being an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign nation.”
~ Benjamin Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor for the United States in The Einsatzgruppen Case at the Nazi Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.

“The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.”
~ Walter Cronkite, 2007-12-04, Common Dreams

“The invasion and occupation of Iraq is illegal.”
~ Kofi Annan Secretary General and Boutros Boutros Ghali former Secretary General of the U.N.

“I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing.”
~ Richard Perle, 2003-11-20, Pentagon hawk, cat-stroking, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, James Bond villain pasty lookalike, admitting the Iraq war is illegal.

“This is just an excuse to get Iraq’s oil.”
~ Nelson Mandela

1. aiding and abetting an aggressive war.
2. torture.
3. use of banned weapons and atrocities.
4. Terrorism, the killing of civilians.

International Law

However, there is the principle of honour among thieves. The Peace of Westphalia refers to the pair of treaties, the Treaty of Münster and the Treaty of Osnabrück, signed on October 24 and May 15 of 1648 respectively, which ended both the Thirty Years’ War and the Eighty Years’ War. They decided that making aggressive war — attacking your neighour without provocation was no longer to be tolerated.

When the Nazis were tried an Nuremberg they were all hanged on but a simple charge — waging aggressive war. They were not hanged for the holocaust or their many atrocities. This principle still stands. Even the propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels was charged. He commited suicide to avoid hanging. Note that he was guilty even though he did not shoot anyone. He merely aided the war.

When the USA joined the United Nations, it signed a treaty agreeing to forego aggressive war. Treaties trump even the constitution. The USA is bound even by its own highest law not to attack other nations.

America put its word and honour on the line when it signed that treaty. When it breaks a treaty, even if no one is sufficiently powerful to retaliate, they despoil their own national reputation. It means America cannot be trusted. It means there is no point is signing agreements with America because she will not keep her word. This is not the only treaty the USA has unilaterally broken. No wonder Canada is reluctant to sign any more trade agreements with the USA. America does not keep her word unless it is convenient.

American Guilt

Most Americans make no bones they attacked Iraq without provocation, perhaps justifying the invasion on the grounds Iraq might have done America harm some years down the road, or that they did it in the name of Jesus or freedom or America, or as Henry Kissinger but it “Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs.” American patriots are so convinced of America’s moral rectitude, they can’t believe their actions are criminal.

Yet the fact is, anyone, even an American, who helps in prosecuting an aggressive war is an international war criminal. In 1946 that was hanging offence, but today merely a life-sentence.

There you have it. Nearly every American in Iraq is there to further the occupation. The invasion is part of an aggressive war. That makes every last one of them an international war criminal, even if they personally killed no one.

Prosecution

• Americans themselves getting an attack of guilt over what they did in Iraq as more and more video of the atrocities comes to light.
• China and India eclipse the USA in economic and military power. The USA would become like Britain after its empire collapsed, still imagining itself powerful, but toothless in actuality.
• American tourists are captured and tried. This is already happening in Germany.
• American war criminals are kidnapped and taken to countries that are willing to stand up to American pressure, much the way Israelis kidnapped Nazi war criminals and took them to Israel.
• Primarily for public relations, the Americans are already prosecuting a few show trials of rapists, murderers and torturers.

Dealing With War Criminals

It would be logical to chastise them with the same vigour you would scream at any other serial killer. Alternatively, you could shun them. These people are absolute sucm compared even with child molesters. Even child molesters rarely torture or murder their victims. You certainly don’t grieve when someone stops their killing sprees by shooting them or blowing them to smithereens. These people are international war criminals, living in a powerful rogue state that protects them from prosecution, just as Nazi Germany was able to protect its war criminals for a time. That is how they should be treated.

P.S. The photo at the top in Rudolf Hess, Nazi war criminal, cooling his heels at Spandau Prison in Berlin. It never occurred to him either he would be prosecuted or even that he was a criminal.

Worse Than Nazis

• Like Nazi Germany, America invaded countries unprovoked. This is illegal aggressive war, the only war crime charge used to convict all the Nazis to be hanged at Nuremberg. America’s wars against Afghanistan and Iraq are wars of empire for the purpose of plundering natural resources, identical to Hitler’s wars.
• American soldiers volunteered to commit war crimes. They knew exactly what they were getting into. The were eager to commit mayhem on civilians. Nazi Germany had a draft. Inductees were threatened with death if they did not obey.
• Hitler did not use poison gas — the banned weapon of his day. Americans use DU (depleted uranium), land mines, cluster bombs, naplam and white phosphorus — the banned weapons of our day.
• Americans routinely tortured every “detainee”, civilian or solidier. Nazis did not routinely torture POW or civilian detainees.
• Americans are taught to hate and fear Muslims, calling them ragheads. Nazis were taught to hate and fear Jews.
• Americans primarily kill children in their stay-safe style of warfare where they don’t even see their victims. This is because over half of Iraqis are under 15. In any third world country, if you shoot blindly, you will kill more children than adults. The Nazis primarily killed fellow soldiers.
• Americans have a quota of 30 civilians killed for every high value military target. Beyond that, soldiers are supposed to get permission. Nazis killed civilians, but did not primarily kill civilians.
• Americans have revived a trillion dollar a year opium trade in Afghanistan, producing more heroin than the entire world consumes each year. It was wiped out by the Taliban. Nazis did not make their subject populations produce illegal drugs. There was no comparable scale of corruption.

Feeble Excuses

• “The soldiers are American. They would never do anything improper.” This is this silliest excuse. Americans are just as capable of evil as anyone else. Consider that pedophiles join the priesthood so they have a cloak of respectability from which to abuse children. Similarly sadists, rapists and serial killers join the military where they can commit any atrocity they please with almost no chance of prosecution.
• “You just hate Americans” That too is silly. My room mate is American. My ex is an American. I hate people who butcher and torture children. Just because recruits are American does not excuse their Nazi-like behaviour. Americans are so used to seeing themselves as heroic, even when they torture, attack small countries and plunder the resources of countries too small to defend themselves they deceive themselves that these patently evil deeds are heroic.
• “The soldiers are just following orders.” Nonsense. They were not forced to join the military. They would not be tortured or killed if they refused to commit war crimes. We did not let the Nazis off the hook who were under much greater duress to commit war crimes. A soldier can’t escape responsibility for his actions any more that a Mafia hit man can excuse himself on the grounds he was ordered to kill.
• “The soldiers are naive.” They imagine they are protecting the USA. I just don’t buy this. They know they are primarily killing kids. They know they are using banned weapons. They know torture is wrong by every moral code. They know perfectly well the people they are exterminating in Iraq have never harmed a US civilian and have no means to do so. The claim they are “defending freedom” is just convenient patriotic bullshit they use to salves their filthy consciences. They know there were no WMDs in Iraq and that Bush lied that he knew precisely where these nukes were hidden. They know that bin Laden is not hiding in Afghanistan.
• “Finances force them to.” Granted the military is a job of last resort, like working at Wal Mart or McDonalds. Recruiters bribe with false promises of education or vocational training. The Mafia has even juicier inducements for hitmen. But we don’t excuse hired Mafia killers or drug dealers just because they needed the money.
• “You cannot judge us.” I am supposedly disqualified because I am not an American, because I am not in the military, or because I have never killed anyone myself. Americans happily judged Germans at the end of WW II, so there is no requirement for matching nationality to recognise evil. Judges who have never committed a crime, much less killed anyone, are given the task of judging civil murders. Normally we disqualify criminals and war criminals from being judges. We don’t allow the accused to decide his own guilt. So I am better equipped than an American soldier to judge his or her conduct.
• “But I didn’t kill anyone!” That you were too incompetent or dishonest a hit man that you took the money without killing anyone, oddly, is no excuse. If a group of thugs plan a bank heist, and one of them murders a guard, then all of them are guilty of murder. In a similar way, all US soldiers aided and abetted an illegal aggressive war to deprive Iraq of $13.5 trillion in oil. That makes all of them guilty for all the crimes including the murders and torture. So soldiers who did nothing more than peel potatoes are still guilty of murder.
• “I will never be prosecuted’ In practice, the odds of prosecution for peeling potatoes are remote. Mostly the prosecutors want to fry the big fish, pun intended. On the other hand, the Internet makes it much easier for someone to track down and kill a US soldier for a personal vendetta, perhaps for a lesser crime like rape or stealing the life savings of a destitute family. The soldiers who committed atrocities and murders in Iraq or Afghanistan may live perhaps another 70 years, plenty of time for relatives of their victims or other vigilantes to track them down and slit their throats. Recall Nazis in their nineties were kidnapped to face justice. Germany is already prosecuting American war criminals. The penalty for aiding and abetting an aggressive war is hanging, which would be commuted to life sentence in most civilised countries. Soldiers laugh claiming the USA will protect them forever from prosecution. However, the USA has little oil and gas of its own and it has taken no measures to reduce its dependence on foreign oil. As the price of oil rises, the USA will necessarily get poorer and poorer. If you pay attention to the economic decline of the USA, you will see it won’t be the #1 power much longer. The EU has already surpassed it in economic strength and is 60% more populous. The economies of China and India are growing 10 times faster. Russia is again growing powerful from its control of oil and gas. The USA has alienated nearly every other country on the planet while it was #1. A lot can change politically in 70 years. So I would not count on the US government having the muscle or political will to protect you from your just deserts for the rest of your life.

Lt Ehren Watada

Conclusion

Some ill-informed people insist these modern soldiers were fighting for my freedom, and I should be grateful for their mayhem. Today’s soldiers bare no resemblance to WW II soldiers. Today’s soldiers chose to go half way round the world to pick a fight so they could hunt humans for sport, not to defend their country. They knew full well the impoverished children, civilians and resistance they maimed, tortured and killed did not and could not harm anyone back home. Even if it were not 100% clear before they enlisted, it certainly was within days after hitting the ground in Iraq. Iraqis have an average monthy wage of only $5.00 USD . Just how do they imagine such as attack could be mounted, with reed boats like Thor Heyerdahl? What old-maidish paranoia excusing cowardly cold-blooded slaughter! They are not only serial killers, they are liars, hiding behind the freedom-fighting sacrifices of the heroes of WW II to cover their sadism. My freedom was and is not in the least danger from Afghanistan or Iraq. My freedom, however, is in danger from the abrogations of the constitutions perpetrated by the Canadian, British and American pro-war factions.

Further, the actions of these soldiers has turned the USA from most admired to most despised nation on the planet. Just as Nazi Germany sealed its own fate by attacking other nations unprovoked, so did the USA. The world won’t put up with this sort of bullying indefinitely, any more than it continued to put up with Hitler, after a period appeasement.

Confessions

“We have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th attacks.”
~ George W. Bush, 2003-09-17, audio.

“the enemy attacked us, Jim” [explaining why he invaded Iraq.]
~ George W. Bush
“Jim, the president just said something extraordinarily revealing and, frankly, very important in this debate. In answer to your question about Iraq and sending people into Iraq, he just said the enemy attacked us. Saddam Hussein didn’t attack us; Osama bin Laden attacked us. Al Qaeda attacked us.”
~ John Kerry, Senator, in rebuttal
“of course I know Osama bin Laden attacked us. I know that. I know that. [That the USA attacked Iraq first]”
~ George W. Bush, 2004-09-30, admitting his dissembling that Iraq attacked the USA when Kerry challenged him in the first presidential debate.

“The United States has no credible evidence that Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria early last year before the U.S.-led war that drove Saddam Hussein from power.”
~ Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser,, 2004-09-04.

“He [Saddam Hussein] has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbors.”
~ Colin Powell 2001-02-02

“As we now know, Iraq had no tie to Osama, no role in 9/11, no nuclear program, no weapons of mass destruction, no plans to attack us. Its people did not threaten us and did not want war with us.”
~ Pat Buchanan, 2004-02-11

“The most important difference between north Korea and Iraq was that economically we had no choice in Iraq.”
~ Paul Wolfowitz, then US Deputy Defense Secretary, 2003-06, when asked why Iraq, which didn’t have weapons of mass destruction, was invaded, while North Korea, which claimed to have a nuclear deterrent, wasn’t.

Bald Faced Lies

“Many Iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast, and I have a message for them. If we must begin a military campaign, it will be directed against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you. As our coalition takes away their power, we will deliver the food and medicine you need. We will tear down the apparatus of terror and we will help you to build a new Iraq that is prosperous and free. In a free Iraq, there will be no more wars of aggression against your neighbors, no more poison factories, no more executions of dissidents, no more torture chambers and rape rooms. The tyrant will soon be gone. The day of your liberation is near.”
~ George W. Bush, 2003-03-17, Bush’s betrayal of the Iraqi people. 3 days later Bush attacked the residential parts of Baghdad with his terrorist Shock & Awe attack that was broadcast live on American TV.

“We will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who’ve had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.”
~ Dick Cheney, 2003-09 in TV interview, dissembling to suggest that Iraq was responsible for 9/11.

“It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
~ Albert Einstein (1879-03-14— 1955-04-18)

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