brucie - I would hope that, considering the international outcry against the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the international community will hold the U.S. responsible and history will judge them.

I do not think the U.S. is all-powerful. I think that people are more powerful. Lets not forget that 50% of the U.S. population is not greater than the majority of people in this world that condemn the actions of the U.S. in Iraq. Internationally, the U.S. will be the big losers in this one.

Since Iraq, new international alliances have been formed to protect them from the aggressor. Powerful alliances like China and India not to mention Russia, Iran and Syria will punish the U.S. economically. The U.S. was once the envy of all countries, it is now hated and feared. The world will take every step necessary to marginalize the U.S.

Its not easy to, "Go it alone" in the world. They have isolated themselves from international opinion and lied to their citizens.

...and DougR - what country imprisons children because they have may have committed crimes? Most civilized places at least give their children the benefit of courts and judges.