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    "US Army Go Home" Iraqi men walk past anti-US graffiti in Baghdad on October, 2003.

    It Is Time for a National Reckoning About the Iraq War

    Twenty years ago, the U.S. destroyed Iraq with an invasion that also constituted an attack on the very concept of the international rule of law.

    Dave Inder Comar
    Mar 20, 2023

    The attack against Iraq by the United States and its coalition in 2003 was a blatant and reprehensible act of aggression for which there has yet to be any meaningful accountability. At least hundreds of thousands and possibly more than one million Iraqis lost their lives through this illegal undertaking. Millions more were displaced. The self-determination of the people of Iraq and their ability to choose their own destiny and place in the world was irreparably shattered.

    Numerous cultural and political elites in the United States gleefully supported the war as a courageous or even joyous act. It was the opposite. The Iraq War constituted an attack on the very concept of the international rule of law. In addition to the injuries inflicted upon Iraqis, two decades have now passed since the invasion without any examination of how U.S. conduct has contributed to current international anarchy and aggravated great power violence and confrontation.

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    Putin’s George W. Bush Problem: or Bush's Putin Problem?

    Perhaps these “birds of a feather” ought to be “tried together?

    Kary Love
    Jan 14, 2023

    V. Putin’s war of aggression against Ukraine is a war crime. Although the “NATO expansion” is an apparent effort to encircle Russia on its western border with new NATO members, despite the promise of the Bush I administration not to do so, may be considered on the issue of appropriate punishment, it is no defense to the crime. In fact, aggressive war, or a war of invasion, is the “ultimate war crime” according to the Nuremberg Tribunal and the US Prosecutor Justice Jackson.

    Recent precedent supports that Putin is subject to prosecution for the invasion of Ukraine. In particular, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal and Commission were established under the Laws of Malaysia; they had a pre-existing Statute and Rules of Procedure. They also paid for a qualified Team of Malaysian Barristers to defend the Defendants. They put on as vigorous a Defense as could have been made.

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    A photo of a display at the Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg, Germany

    Donald Trump and Germany in the 1930s: Reflections After a Visit to Nuremberg

    Richard W. Gillett
    Mar 04, 2016

    Nuremberg, a historic medieval city, was widely known in the 1930s as the most pro-Nazi city in Germany. Last December was also the origin of a wonderful seven-day cruise on the Danube River for my wife and me. Conscious of its historical significance, we had come to see the city early, especially to tour its World War II sites.

    Nuremberg was the site of gigantic annual rallies celebrating the Nazi Party and its Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. Our tour guide, Tom, a native of Nuremberg, began to open my eyes anew to the fanatical power and charisma of Hitler. Tom took us first to the vast parade grounds and reviewing stand before which, in 1934, an astounding one million people assembled rank on rank. To address his followers, the Fuhrer descended to the speaker's platform from a doorway above, "like an angel from heaven", said our guide, to proclaim "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" (one people, one nation, one leader).

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