Saddam's underpants are not the issue
05/22/05
No one need feel sorrow for Saddam Hussein, who in many eyes incarnates diabolic evil. His crimes themselves condemn him. That does not excuse demolishing the edifice of international and humanitarian law to depose and humiliate him. We must feel sorrow, not for the tyrant, but for our loss of international order enshrined in the Geneva Conventions and the UN Charter. The United States and its British acolytes have brushed international law -- and the protections it implied for us all -- to pursue their crusade to control Iraq and intimidate its neighbours. Saddam's underwear is not the issue. Law is...
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=640365
from Independent [UK], by Charles Glass
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
No one need feel sorrow for Saddam Hussein, who in many eyes incarnates diabolic evil. His crimes themselves condemn him. That does not excuse demolishing the edifice of international and humanitarian law to depose and humiliate him. We must feel sorrow, not for the tyrant, but for our loss of international order enshrined in the Geneva Conventions and the UN Charter. The United States and its British acolytes have brushed international law -- and the protections it implied for us all -- to pursue their crusade to control Iraq and intimidate its neighbours. Saddam's underwear is not the issue. Law is...
http://comment.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=640365
from Independent [UK], by Charles Glass
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 23. Mai, 10:25
