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Thread #69284   Message #1174468
Posted By: GUEST,Jim McCallan
29-Apr-04 - 07:02 PM
Thread Name: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
Subject: RE: BS: American Soldiers Torturing Iraqis
"and these people are still entitled to be legally charged and tried before they are determined to be guilty."

Nice one, artbrooks.

You would, by definition then, extend this 'innocent til proven guilty' system of yours, to include the people the soldiers were photographed 'helping'?

Definition of war crime: crime during a war: a crime committed during wartime that is in violation of international agreements concerning the conventions of war, for example, the mistreatment of prisoners or genocide (often used in the plural)
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Jim