Crime not War (Re: Arguments for ground war - forget it)
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 22:04:59 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
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> CB: In another legal area, the secret military tribunal
> thingy violates the Constitution and the Geneva Accords on
> treatment of prisoners of war. Bush can't have it both
> ways. If this is a war, then those he captures are
> prisoners of war, and they have rights under international
> law. You can't have secret tribunals with military officers
> deciding to execute people without drifting over into war
> crimes stuff.
I would prefer to substitute "The United States" for "Bush" in this statement. It was a decision of the Administration, not merely of the person slightingly referred to as Dubya, and it is a decision that has the backing, apparently, of all the chief instruments and agencies of the ruling class. It enters in to our debate over what is and is not the "anti-imperialism of fools."
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Charles: I don't mind this , but as a UN prosecutor for the Nuremberg II trials, would have to bring charges against actual people, not "The United States". She would have to have named defendants for a war crimes trial.
If a world wide socialist revolution ensues , meanwhile, adding some more principles to international cirminal law, well, then....