@OmSigDAVID,
Hi OmSigDAVID,
Sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday, I had some things to do.
I have worked for a law firm, in Sydney, for three years, and still don't know all law. in this state.
It would not be a surprise to me if in the USA, there is no law against the President, sending the army to war. So if their is no law against it. You are saying it is not a crime. I think that is what you are saying. If so it may not be against the law in the USA.
That is not the case in the rest of the would. In Australian law if an Australian, commits what Australian law says is a crime over sea's what ever happens to them in the country where they have committed the offense. They could still be charged back in Australia, These law's were really meant to stop people going to say Thailand, and committing sex offenses. And Country's where Australia, doe's not have an extradition treaty.
Spain, has a law that allow the Spanish, police to arrest any one believed to be guilty of war crimes, any where in the world. So do the French, and so do The British.
So it really doesn't matter if American law says its OK, to invade kill and occupy another country. The rest of the would does have laws against it.
OK you mentioned Nuremberg, A lot of Nazis, could not be charged be cause they were in the army and only following orders. Fair enough. You may have seen Schindler's List, in this film the Krakow,work camps leader Amon Goeth, was following orders, to make the prisoners work, and kill those that could not work. His war crimes, his crimes against humanity, where when he killed for his own personal fun. No one in charge of him said just kill every one and any one you want.When the American, soldiers were sent to Iraq, to fight that was not, and is not their crime they are doing their job and following orders. They are not criminals. When some American, soldiers in Iraq, raped a young girl and killed her, and her family, they knew they where doing wrong that is why they tried to hide what they had done by burning the body's. No one ordered them to do that, they are criminals.
No one was in charge of George Bush, and people from the UN, down, pleaded with him Don't do this. He did it him self there is no one ells above him to blame. George Bush, and his to side kicks Tony Blair, and John Howard, are war criminal's.
Dardardit,