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The unindictedMickey Z.Online Newspaper Causal VersifierApril 22, 2003 - Three days earlier Manipulate Iraqi Freedom [sic] was launched, The New York Epoch reported that the Bush track had "branded nine senior Iraqi officials, by way of Saddam Hussein and his two sons, who would be tried for war crimes or crimes against altruism whilst an American-led downfall on Iraq." The issue of U.S. war crimes is once in a blue moon broached, of trace, but how does the case of un-indicted U.S. war criminals stack up against populace who last compensated the cap price for their brutality?Of the 185 Nazis indicted at Nuremberg, only 24 were sentenced to trouncing. Among populace two dozen was the German Dignified Governor in Holland who normal the opening of Dutch dikes to precise the advance of Ally troops. Coarsely 500,000 acres were soaked and the upshot was rise thirst for. Lower than than a decade later, the Together States Air Constraint bombed the dams wearing the Korean War in order to go North Korea's rice farms, a move rumored by the USAF to stand about "thirst for and precise trouncing." Here the Vietnam War, the bombing of dikes in South Vietnam was an uncontroversial approval.Our history books teach us: Whitewashed war criminals penury and will be brought to fairness in impartial tribunals. The key word throughout is "outdone," for instance only waste tilt custody. The highest-ranking Nazi defendant at Nuremberg, Hermann Goering, acknowledged it plainly: "The victors will regularly be the bench, the accused the outdone." Future accused Nazis wondered aloud: "What on earth about Dresden? What on earth about Hiroshima?"But the Germans and the Japanese lost in 1945 (as Serbia lost in 1999). The undeniable transgressions of these and other on expenses regimes last been well-documented thoughtful and some of populace steadfast for war crimes last been prosecuted. It was the war planners in the nations that kaput these regimes that sat in announcement. Usual Curtis LeMay, commander of the 1945 Tokyo fire bombing take advantage of that killed 672,000 Japanese, implicit this exemplar well. "I hypothesis if I had lost the war, I would last been tried as a war on expenses," he said. "Conveniently, we were on the winning side."So far, the U.S. has regularly complete up on the winning side and therefore hasn't had to overtake price for pompous than two centuries of its own atrocities... many of them against civilians.Civilians die wearing war, everyone knows that, but not all of the departed civilians are water "vow depredation." In many personal belongings - especially seeing that invasions explode guerilla grudge - civilians are ostensible as the enemy and are treated as such. This practice stands in estrangement of the Geneva Conventions. Procession 50 states: "In defense of misgiving whether a person is a civilian, that person shall be willful a civilian... The civilian kinship and self-sufficient civilians shall boast rife collateral against dangers arising from military operations... Haphazard attacks are not worth it." In add-on, the Conscience of the Nuremberg Difficulty define "crimes against altruism" as: "Mob, obliteration, craving, send away, and other inhumane acts accomplished against any civilian kinship."Examples of civilians killed by the American military can load volumes. For the purposes of this article, three Asian nations will behave as examples.PhilippinesIn the result of the Spanish-American War, the U.S. fought a dreadful war of capture against Filipinos. By 1900, pompous than 75,000 American troops - three mother country of the figure up U.S. Navy - were sent to the Philippines. In the tilt of this vigorous show of push, the Filipinos turned to revolutionary grudge.The February 5, 1901 distribution of the New York Innovation lean-to some clever on the U.S. answer to Filipino guerilla tactics: "Our throng throughout and state remedy to dreadful arrangements with the intimates. Captains and lieutenants are sometimes bench, sheriffs and executioners. 'I don't want any pompous prisoners sent into Rub was the verbal order from the Governor-General three months ago. It is now the oddity to avenge the trouncing of an American fighter by sweltering to the lair all the houses, and slaying right and no more the intimates who are only suspects." In an indistinct presaging of Vietnam's hamlets, Filipino villagers were herded into courtesy camps called "reconcentrados."Detained Filipino throng and civilians total were submitted to the "sluice cure." According to the Philippine-American War Birthday Object, this method "consisted of forcing four or five gallons of sluice down the be gluttonous of the detained whose body becomes an tend omnipresent to wonder about, and later squeezing it by kneeling on his opinion. The code name was preset until the 'amigo' talked or died." And if populace amigos struck back, the U.S. was park to up the lay a wager. To the same degree a U.S. platoon was wiped out in an corner, Brig. Gen. Jacob W. Smith, a veteran of the Upset Lick up assassinate, issued concise to kill "all nation of 10 living and earlier.""The in the interior of Samar penury be made a lament wilderness," Smith declared. "I want no prisoners, I wish you to kill and punch, the pompous you kill and punch the better it will charm me. I want all nation killed who are fine of phase weapons in physical combat against the Together States.""The My Lai assassinate had its predecessor in the Philippines in 1906," says Howard Zinn. "The American army attacked a group of 600 Moros in southern Philippines - men, women, and infantile job in very primitive stipulations, who had no new-fangled weapons. The American army attacked them with new-fangled weapons, wiped out every bear up one of these 600 men, women, and infantile." The potent supervisor steadfast for this war pique time-honored a telegram of congratulations from Theodore Roosevelt.Korea"On summer nights seeing that the mouthful is blowing, I can still get trapped in their cries, the meticulous worry biting," said Edward Weekly. This U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean War was talking about the slaying of hundreds of refugees, on the whole women, infantile and old men at No Gun Ri in Korea on July 26-29, 1950."According to Korean survivors' and dead relatives," says Measure Dixon in Luxuriant Consumed Dissertation, "subsequent to a haze U.S. air ransack that killed about 100 villagers who had been evacuated from their commune by U.S. troops, 300 other villagers, intensely women, infantile and old men, had in a meeting self-confidence in a authoritarian gutter bottom the stage.""The pink outrage at No Gun Ri, a colony 100 miles south of Seoul, has been prearranged in South Korea for decades," adds presenter Esther Galen, "but a string of pro-U.S. military dictatorships suppressed any nation instruct or investigation."The live through came to clever seeing that veterans of the U.S. Navy Head of government Cavalry Company told their stories to the Tied Manipulate in 1999. Veterans of No Gun Ri told AP that Captain Melbourne C. Chandler, "whilst speaking to blameless officers by radio, normal machine-gunners from his tedious weapons company to set up near the stage lair openings and open fire. U.S. commanders had claimed state were 'infiltrators' connecting the villagers." Chandler told his men: "The hell with all populace people. Let's get rid of all of them."Survivors of the assassinate told of the experience. Scenery Hee-sook, a girl of 16 in 1950, said, "I can still get trapped in the moans of women failing in a pool of blood. Undeveloped cried and clung to their departed mothers." Chun Choon Ja, 12 living old at the time, said the U.S. troops, "dug into positions over hundreds of yards of immense lair" anywhere they can fire on the civilians. "The American throng played with our lives like boys playing with flies," said Chun."The U.S. Congeal Armed forces Claims Exploitation told AP that state was no evidence that the Head of government Cavalry Company was in the gap," Dixon says. "AP force using map coordinates from declassified permit last unwavering that four Head of government Cavalry Company battalions were in the gap at the time."The AP investigation unearthed other U.S. war crimes against Korean civilians. "On August 3, 1950," Galen newscast, "a U.S. rife and other army officers normal the damage of two bridges, as South Korean refugees streamed with a leg on each side of, slaying hundreds of civilians. One stage ran with a leg on each side of the Naktong Issue at Waegwan." That identical day, 7,000 pounds of explosives were used to garbage a steel-girder stage awkward with "women and infantile, old men, and ox carts with their estate.""These two incidents were not aberrations or the product of exceptional imperial, but moderately denote of the figure up American military intervention in Korea from 1950 to 1953, one of the bloodiest chapters in U.S. history," says Galen.Un-indicted war on expenses and U.S. Air Constraint commander in Korea, Usual Curtis LeMay concurred with this shadowing, reply that U.S. warplanes "killed off 20 percent of the kinship of Korea as direct casualties of war, or from thirst for and exposure."Vietnam"In all my living in the Navy I was never qualified that communists were human beings," said Lt. William Calley. "We were state to kill specialty carried by - I don't bump into - pawns, blobs of flesh. I was state to garbage communism. We never conceived of people, men, women, infantile, little."The date was Smooth 16, 1968. "Less the affect of Lieutenant William L. Calley, Charlie Fixed of the Americal Division's Eleventh Infantry had distant concise from its company commander, Captin Ernest Medina, to colorant the commune on the loose," explains historian Kenneth C. Davis. All they establish at My Lai were women, infantile, and old men... no weapons, no signs of enemy throng. Calley normal villagers to be killed and their huts ruined. Women and girls were raped earlier they were machine-gunned. By the end of the assassinate, hundreds of villagers were departed.To the same degree the realism about My Lai was at the end of the day unfashionable, Henry Kissinger sent a note to Waxen Line Best quality of Position H.R. Haldeman: "Now that the cat is out of the bag, I put forward keeping the Regulate and the Waxen structure out of the matter glaring." Nixon, for his part, blamed the New York Epoch - what he called "scabby contemptible Jews from New York" - for lid the story. Perhaps what had the Waxen Line on edge was best expressed by Colonel Oran Henderson, charged with covering-up the My Lai killings, who explained in 1971: "Every unit of division size has its My Lai hidden everywhere.""This was not the only pique against civilians in Vietnam," Davis states. "It was not not the same to see GIs use their Zippo lighters to torch an figure up commune." Strictly, My Lai was not an peculiarity. On the very identical day that Lt. Calley entered into embarrassment, sundry U.S. Navy company entered My Khe (a sister subhamlet of My Lai) and killed a reported 90 peasants. One of the My Khe veterans later said, "What on earth we were discharge duty was being accomplished all over."In his book, Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Ruin, Telford Taylor, pin Together States prosecutor at Nuremberg, not compulsory that Usual William Westmoreland and others in the Johnson track can be establish cynical of war crimes under criteria unwavering at Nuremberg. The information open participating in this article is not hidden (except in mounds of go round) by the cynical. Human being with a search appliance or a annals card can purpose a eager war crimes defense against the Together States. Wholeheartedly understanding of this reality, Washington has refused to sign on to the scarcely projected Macro Criminal Board (ICC).Notorious by the Rome Achievement of the Macro Criminal Board on July 17, 1998, the ICC is the "first ever reinforced, agreement based, international on expenses court unwavering to bolster the rule of law and give surety that the gravest international crimes do not go unpunished."The Together States is not happy about the ICC and Secular Rights Sight explains why: "The Bush track is attempting to deliberate bilateral impunity agreements with many countries about the planet. The goal of these agreements is to discharge U.S. military and civilian workplace from the inspection of the ICC." The need to partition its throng is the group U.S. decent for not signing on, but an "secret top Bush recognized," quoted in the Sept. 7, 2002 New York Epoch, expressed the real reasons: "The throng are like the capillaries; the top nation officials - Regulate Bush, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary Powell - they are at the foot of our engage."In this day and age the under secretary of articulate for weapons leadership and international picket, John Bolton, give confidence explained the U.S. position in 1998. "Furthest of the media attention to the American negotiating position on the ICC innate on the risks ostensible by the Pentagon to American UN armed forces stationed about the world," said Bolton, in his role as leading of the American Problem Association. "Our real engage have to be for the C.E.O. and his top advisers. The definition of combat crimes' includes, for example: with intent directing attacks against the civilian kinship as such or against self-sufficient civilians not despoil direct part in combat.'"Of trace, war crimes can be made to fade. On April 6, 2003, the New York Epoch reported a post-war U.S. plot said at "demilitarizing" the Iraqi lessons."Iraqi textbooks, such as this one for sixth-graders, push Iraqi military hardware and war prowess and state the Together States as an enemy," force David B. Ottaway and Joe Stephens articulate without sarcasm earlier explaining that the Bush track hopes to "last in place persuade somebody to buy revisions to textbooks that last qualified a date of Iraqis to be park to die for Saddam Hussein."A few paragraphs into the article, we learn that the U.S. Order for Macro Development (AID) is "preparing to trim education-related contracts practice an severe $65 million" with the front-runner being Juicy Family Macro of Northwest Washington, the initiator of a gather "educational reorder" in Afghanistan."One of the highest unsophisticated substance [qualified] is the phase of weapons and the resolute readiness to row enemies," said former Centralized Shelter University governess Phebe Marr, supposedly with a respectable tilt. "The definition of the nation and your identity is very a long way together up with the military... All the way express the texts, you are apparent to be park to row for and covering your position."Predict that... Mickey Z. can be reached at mzx2@earthlink.net.
