do you think that servicepeople should be tried for war crimes?
553226
Maybe they will someday.  The Nazis never thought it would come to that, but it did, Nuremburg Trials. \n\nJustice will be served if not in the courts on the streets if not the streets by mental illness aquired over there.  It all returns to equality one way or another.  \n\nThese "servicepeople" can wave any flag they like and chant (hoo rah) all they want. At the end of the day they know we attacked civilians (including 3 year old girls) and there was nothing noble or the least bit honorable about this war.
790491
i think so. if the minor understood what they were doing and knew what the outcome would be then yes they should be tried as adults.  there areway to many young people out killing each other and know they can get away with it, because they will go to juvie and be out when they are 18.  i say lock them up with the adults so they can truly learn a lesson.
1127324
I definitely think that they deserve a trial.  If they are found guilty, then something can be done with them, rather than detaining them indefinitely in prison.  If they are found innocent, then the country needs to make reparations to them for falsely imprisoning them for months/years.\n\nThere seems to be some sort of misunderstanding as to whether these people are POWs.  This is being litigated right now, but it is my instinct that they are not.  They were not captured on the battle field.  Many were ripped right out of their homes in the US.  This doesn't mean that they are innocent men and women, but it does make them the same as a person who is arrested for burglary, for example.  As a wartime president, Bush does not have the power to override the constitution.  The Supreme Court has held this time and time again.  They deserve a trial.
504026
Of course. If you cooperate in unjust laws, you are cooperating in an injustice. When Hitler made it legal to discriminate against the Jews, seize their property and posessions, hound them to death, are you suggesting that a just person should have obeyed those laws? Should a citizen of South Africa have worked to support the laws enforcing apartheid, or to destroy them?\nBecause something is endorsed by law, that does not make it legal, as the Nurenberg trials proved.
1017015
S**T that what ever happened to Innocent until proven guilty in the USA. If there has been no charges made to those service men. There is no way they should be in chains and kept from seeing their family. Now if they had been charged things might be different. While those S**ts in Gitmo get all their daily requirements to make them feel better. By those so called HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS. A fine bunch of Hypocritical Two-faced Head up their A**ses. Do gooders. For the Human rights of Murderers and Terrorists. I also am disappointed in the Republican Government for allowing those Service men to be treated that way. When it was the said Government that sent them over there in the first place. They should get of their big well paid arses and do something positive for once.
1127777
I don't know if the US has compensated Vietnam for war crimes but I feel they should - but not as long as the government is still Communist. And we need to stop committing these war crimes? We wouldn't have to compensate for them if we didn't commit them. Better yet, we need to stay out of these countries. I still can't figure out why we were in Vietnam in the first place - they didn't ask for our help! Nor did the Iraqis.
625999
i am a big supporter of our military but if they commit cold murder, they should face the punishment. war is a stressful place but we cant allow ourselves to be criminals.
926959
it would not affect my thinking one bit. \n\nI have served my time. i would do it again. ASAP. If my country needed me. It is about time the "trash-talkers" bucked up and earned a little freedom.
725924
They were not war crimes.  To be war crimes, they have to be done to innocent civilians or to military people whose government signed with the Geneva Convention.  There is a specific clause in the Geneva convention that these stateless militaries never signed the Geneva Convention.\n\nIt's also U.S. policy under the MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) policy. It's the whole reason why the U.S. stocks nuclear weapons and stocked biological and chemical weapons.  If a country was to unleash a chemical weapon on teh U.S., we would have the ability to do the same to them.  Although torture doesn't work as a way to gather intellegence, it does work as a deterrent against them.  They might not fear prison or death, but they do fear secret prisons and Gitmo.
286661
Saddam committed his alleged crimes within the boundaries of Iraq and should be subject to Iraqi justice if indeed he is found to be guilty.  I have believed all along that the Iraqi people are the ones that need to handle whatever is to be Saddam's fate.  \n\nIn view of the controversy surrounding the death of Slobodan Milosevic, I am a lot more comfortable that Saddam will receive actual justice and we will not have to worry about this kind of thing putting a cloud over the whole thing.
636088
If someone kills someone out of self defense then that person probably had it coming and the person who killed because the were defending themselves should have no punishment.  I think war is a different subject.  The point of war is to kill and they are taught to do it therefore they should not be punished.  I know wars are sad but humans aren't perfect and they still happen.  If anyone murders someone on accident (manslaughter) than they should spend some jail time.  If someone killed someone on purpose, whether they planned to do it or not, They should be killed.  If someone sexually or physically harassed someone they should be beaten and put in jail (yes it's brutal but there would be a lot less crime if we had harsher punishments) .  If someone was raped, than the rapist should be put to death.\nI think that punishments should be very harsh when someone purposely harms someone else, unless it is self defense.  If punishments were more harsh on things like these there would be a lot less of it.
388694
I feel the say way.  I do not hate them.  I just don't think anybody who disrespects others and commits a crime should get away with anything.  They should be punished, not rewarded.  And yea, they should go back and wait in line and file the proper paperworks.
574751
He should have to face the world court in the Hague for his crimes against humanity. He attack a sovereign nation for no reason at all and his troupes have engaged in torture and other atrocity's to prisoners of war.
710288
I think that would be fantastic idea. Anyone guilty of unsocial behavior,minor crimes it would certainly make them think before breaking the law.Just imagine the uproar this would cause ,(ITS against their Human rights)\nNever about the rights of law abiding citizens.
521114
Yes.  If the nation offers a war criminal amnesty, then they will not be prosecuted.
191022
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many other right wing zealots in the U.S. government have conspired to wage an illegal war of aggression against Iraq, kidnap and torture civilians around the world, attack civilians and medical facilities in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. These crimes violate U.S. law, the U.S. Constitution, the Hague and Geneva conventions and other treaties and conventions.\n\nThere is no question that the U.S. is responsible for war crimes, the question is who will stand up to the Bush Adminstration. Who can question the U.S.? No politician will speak out. No court will take the case. No international organization is willing to challenge the U.S. No other nation dares to risk retribution from the U.S. government by even raising the issue.\n\nOnly the people can challenge these crimes. Only by raising a public hue and cry so loud that the issue cannot be politely ignored will this horrific crime spree be stopped.
583147
OK...Srdjane...\n\nThe War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague might have started out biased against the Serbs...but now I think it is doing a good job of indicting war criminals of all nationalities...not just Serbs..\n\nAlbanians such as Ramush Haradinaj Bosnians such as Naser Oric..  and Croatians such as Ante Gotevina have all been arrested by the Hague..\n\nI can't wait until they catch Mladic and Karadzic as well...\nAnd I hope Agim Ceku is indicted soon too.\n\nThe work of the War Crimes Tribunal is important because inorder to have a reconciliation and build a new future..the truth must be know..and the guilty prosecuted