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	<title>Comments on: Torture? What About the Crime of Waging Aggressive War?</title>
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		<title>By: Baltasar D. Cruz</title>
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		<dc:creator>Baltasar D. Cruz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The first two counts of the (four count) Nuremberg war crimes indictment against the German leaders after WWII were charges of:
(a) participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, including the planning, preparation, initiation or waging of war of aggression in violation of international law and international treaties (count 1) and
(b) the planning, preparation, initiation or waging war of aggression in violation of international law and international treaties (count 2).

It must also be noted that the US&#039;s lead prosecutor at Nuremberg, US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, asserted during his opening statement to the International Military Tribunal, that &quot;the ultimate step in avoiding periodic wars, which are inevitable in a system of international lawlessness, is to make statesmen responsible to law. And let me make clear that while this law is first applied to the German aggressors, the law includes, and if it is to serve a useful purpose it must condemn aggression by any other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment.&quot; 

As the UN Charter is an international treaty which expressly prohibits member nations from attacking one another without the express authorization of the United Nations (which George W. Bush and his co-conspirator did not obtain) and the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war and defined it as an international crime for which statesmen could be tried as war criminals, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz et al must, therefore, be tried for their crimes against peace (which continue to cause death and suffering in Iraq on a massive scale) under the same legal principles recognized at Nuremberg.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first two counts of the (four count) Nuremberg war crimes indictment against the German leaders after WWII were charges of:<br />
(a) participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, including the planning, preparation, initiation or waging of war of aggression in violation of international law and international treaties (count 1) and<br />
(b) the planning, preparation, initiation or waging war of aggression in violation of international law and international treaties (count 2).</p>
<p>It must also be noted that the US&#8217;s lead prosecutor at Nuremberg, US Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, asserted during his opening statement to the International Military Tribunal, that &#8220;the ultimate step in avoiding periodic wars, which are inevitable in a system of international lawlessness, is to make statesmen responsible to law. And let me make clear that while this law is first applied to the German aggressors, the law includes, and if it is to serve a useful purpose it must condemn aggression by any other nations, including those which sit here now in judgment.&#8221; </p>
<p>As the UN Charter is an international treaty which expressly prohibits member nations from attacking one another without the express authorization of the United Nations (which George W. Bush and his co-conspirator did not obtain) and the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war and defined it as an international crime for which statesmen could be tried as war criminals, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz et al must, therefore, be tried for their crimes against peace (which continue to cause death and suffering in Iraq on a massive scale) under the same legal principles recognized at Nuremberg.</p>
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		<title>By: annieR</title>
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		<dc:creator>annieR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 00:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah! How about it? Waging optional war doesn&#039;t seem like a smart thing to do. Sounds like war crimes to me!

This picture reveals the real cause of &quot;W&#039;s&quot; flight suit bulge. Flying in the jet felt like playing war and that no doubt excited him.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah! How about it? Waging optional war doesn&#8217;t seem like a smart thing to do. Sounds like war crimes to me!</p>
<p>This picture reveals the real cause of &#8220;W&#8217;s&#8221; flight suit bulge. Flying in the jet felt like playing war and that no doubt excited him.</p>
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