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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] I certainly understand the question of jurisdiction, and the problem with the fact that some rights under the Constitution may not jibe with the ICC. It's a valid conflict. However, you also have to consider that war crimes tribunals have been an accepted function in response to certain acts of "excess" that are committed in wartime. What's the difference between certain Nazi acts (I'm not referring to the Holocaust, but to smaller crimes) and incidents involving the deaths of large numbers of civilians in, say, Vietnam or Korea? Did the US get to hold a tribunal after WWII simply because they were the winners? By extension, are we unwilling to potentially lose face by admitting to mistakes by individual soldiers? Yes, incidents like the ones I alluded to in Vietnam or Korea are quite a bit different from the organized extermination in the Holocaust, but the deaths of large numbers of civilians or helpless prisoners is something that still deserves to be investigated. And in an international conflict, perhaps a world court is the best place to hold such investigations. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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