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 An Elective War For Oil Is A War Crime (11)
 
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Are George Bush and Tony Blair guilty of war crimes?

This was originally a debate by JoeCavalry which unfortunately contained malformed characters, but I thought it was extremely interesting and deserved reposting (I also added Tony Blair).

Are George Bush, Tony Blair, and their respective administrations guilty of commiting war crimes?


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The Judiciary has always been the weapon that could be judiciously utilized to correct every wrong doings. The Judiciary has helped resolve a lot of mysterious issues that the day-to-day beliefs could not comprehend or fathom.

In law, an accused stays innocent until proven guilty, that should be the status quo and jungle justice should not be allowed to prevail.

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If GWB and Tony Blair were considered guilty of war crimes they would be tried in the court of political correctness gone mad. How can it be considered a war when our true enemy is not a country, does not have an organized army or follows "rules of engagemenet" or The Geneva Convention?

The United States and it's allies have being tried and convicted by the court of world-wide public opinion, with the aid of an over zealous, anti-Amrican and liberally-biased media.

Can somebody please tell me, how should the United States government have reacted when over 3,000 innocent people were slaughtered on Sept 11, 1991? Should we have rolled over and played dead like we did about the First attack on the WTC, Tanzanian Embassy bombing, US.S Cole attack? It was the lack of a responce to these events, I believe, that emboldened our enemy to follow through with the attacks of Sept 11th. Our political backing of Israel warrants the justification of a rogue terrorist group to kill innocent civilians?

Our government's intelligence community compiled data, whether later considered true or false, submitted it to the Executive office, Congress and etc. Based on that, the president and Congress voted to proceed with an attack against Afghanistan, Iraq and any other nation harboring terrorists.

This was with news media outlets reporting 24/7 around the clock and world, driven by political agendas and ratings. We had imbedded reporters that accompanied our military, compromising our strategies and positions, but never-the-less getting the "almighty story" out to the people. Then the Monday night quarterbacks and "experts" could second guess every move, decision and event after it happened. The warped and twisted "Al-Jazeera" media channel could display beheadings of Americans, show the charred remains of American contractors hanging in Iraq and every injury of every innocent civilian over there, regardless of how or by whom they were injured. Forget the accuracy of the report, just report it, get it out there for the public court and let them decide. This has been a war for the hearts and minds of the world, with an unfair burden on the United States Government and military to prove everything beyond a shadow of a doubt. We were considered guilty before our troops hit the ground I think. We are damned if we do, and damned if we don't. But I'd rather error on the side of damned if you do, and stop another attack of epic proportions like 9/11 than win the political correct war.

And, if indeed if it was a war for oil, how come we are paying record highs for a barrel of oil? This whole situation smells of hyprocrisy and hatred. Should we have paused our military on the beaches of Normandy to hurry up and take an opinion poll to gauge the direction of public sentiment? Are we doing the correct thing here? Is that how a nation wins a war? I think not.

470 days ago | Tagged As: war of political correctness
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