Everyone is talking about BushCo incompetence, but how can we know if they are incompetent or not, since none of us really knows what the hell they are doing and why?
Ultimately, as the author points out, it is all quite beside the point.
Can anyone spell "Nuremberg?"
TheStar.com - The real problem is that it is illegal for one country to invade another country, says Linda McQuaig:
But incompetence is a side issue. The real problem is, and always has been, that it is illegal — not to mention immoral — for a country to invade another country, in other words, to wage a war of aggression.
The fact that Iraq is the last unharvested oil bonanza on earth, in an era of increasingly fierce global competition for dwindling oil reserves, only makes U.S. motives all the more suspect.
As the Nuremberg Tribunal concluded after World War II: 'War is essentially an evil thing ... To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.'
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