According to the "Sixth Article" of "Charter of the International Military Tribunal", if USA attacks Iran, it is CRIME AGAINST PEACE and CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY?\n\nhttp://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/imtconst.htm\nhttp://en.wikisource.org/wiki/London_Charter_of_the_International_Military_Tribunal\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Principles
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I don't think USA can afford another war. Iran has a pretty good military force, but US can defeat them. Just that it's going to cost lots of money and many soldiers will die. So I do not agree we should wage war on Iran now. We still facing problems in Iraq and new problems are now arising in Afghanistan. \n\nI think US should focus on helping the refugees in Darfur Region in Sudan. There's evidence of genocide over there and its time to stop the killing.
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here is a crime against humanity right here pass it on, no wonder u guys didnt wanna help with this bogus war in the middle east....\nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5137581991288263801&q=loose+change.    watch to see
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You know, I am never shocked at what one human will do to another, even without just cause.  Torture is in my book an effective means of gaining information, but completely inhumane. Any national of any country technically is forbidden to engage in torture during wartime; as far as I understand the Geneva Convetions. But who is actually going to refrain when they believe their cause for doing so is justified? As for the question of should anyone have the right to engage in torture, I'd have to say level the playing field and let a war be a war again, stop trying to civilize the most uncivilized act possible!
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I see the Point of the Article.....But  I think the Administration is taking the right Approach here,This is my opinion why:1-The younger Generation of Iran do not like its Gov. Policies.Wouldnt be surprised if some or all allied nations trying to stir people against war.2-Irans leader has been making unprovoked threats to many nations,making this a European problem as well.Because of types of threats,War could very well mean WWIII.I think Administration is hoping that our Allies take the lead in any negotiations because Irans military capabilities make it a bigger threat to europe.3-If it comes to American military involvement,look at a map,to see where our soldiers are with regards to Iran.With Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan,Fleets in Persian Gulf, And our bases in Europe and Asia,we are well positioned Militarily.Although my personal belief is that Iranian leader is Crazy(literally)I hope this situation resloves itself.The majority of young Iranians are just like us,they want to live like us and european nations,its just that they have a lunatic with a very large military loyal to that lunatic for a leader.Please note that my opinion is based on what I know and learned through discussions with Iranian Immigrants at school.\nSorry 4 any typos...heavily medicated....
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You're just playing with us Jim; you don't want to nuke anybody anymore than you want them to nuke you. The real question is should we use cruise missiles to destroy Iran's nuclear reactor/s like Israel did with jets back in '81 to Iraq's reactor/s because they were making the bomb too?\n\nAnswer: No to the nukes, Yes to surgical strikes with cruise missiles, which I believe will eventually happen, unless Israel beats us to it!
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http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague01.htm\n\nhttp://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/ibasicdocuments/ibasictext/ibasicindex/Pacific%20settlement%20of%20disputes.htm\n\nhttp://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/ibasicdocuments/ibasictext/ibasicindex/Pacific%20settlement%20of%20disputes.htm
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1- I think it better be wise enough not to do it.since Iran is not Iraq nor Afghanistan.and if US does this mistake it means it is the end of USA.\n2- I see some expanation with other friends here.like the one named up here 63vett.i like to let you know more :\n      A- our government told lies all the time.about Iraq/about 9/11 attackes and never made it clean why if they were not aware of this attacks who told all jews people( from israel) in these building to be our of work in that day.and other people 20 of them were my close friends to stay there and get killed?\n      B- they are telling us that moslems are terrorists so find a way to go to islamic countries and kill peoples over there and get their oils and so no one can say anything since they are fighting against terorists? but all of us know this is not true either.\n      C- Yes it was not right to go to US embassy and get the people there.but ever have you asked yourself why they did it?those people kicked the SHAH down ( some one worse than saddam hossein) who used to kill people and get them in jails with USA supports.so when those people had the revolution the usa was anger of them becuse he lost a best friend ( shah).I think they did it to us to make us think what is going on in iran.and what usa had done to iranian people who no one likes americans.but now they are telling us they like americans who respect them.\n       D- us army went to Iraq to kick out saddam not because to help their people and bring them democracy but because saddam was not saying " yes sir" any more as he usually used to say during Iraq-Iran war.In this war while many countries ( germany with chemical weapons.and france and ...)encloding usa helped saddam to bomed iranian people and killed many people over there.just becuse our top government are thinking about oil and money,and their share in this way and nothing more.\n3- I hope we think one more time and don't mixed everything with the words " terrorism and ...."since terrorism are all over the world and in our country too.can you tell me how many young people get killed everyday here in usa ? in schools and out of streets aren't these people terorists? are all of them muslems? so see the facts and find a better solution to fight terorism. we are looking for peace for all people around the world.and we are sure that any other country will not come from far asia to usa and bothers us.but if we go there and start to bother them we should waite for them to bother us people all around the world.so let us live our own in peace and hope peac for other too.\ngood luck for all.
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This is not new.  Successive US governments have failed to acknowledge one of the most basic ethical rules of diplomacy - i.e. that a principle applies equally to all states.\n\nFor example, if you claim you believe in democracy, then that applies equally to French, US or Venezuelan democracy.  If you claim to believe that torture is wrong, then torture in a Pakistani or Iranian prison is no better or worse than torture in Guantanamo or Baghram, Afghanistan.  If you claim to believe in the rule of international law - oh, I forgot, the US doesn't.  The US has blocked the extradition to other countries of terrorists working for - or with links to - the CIA.\n\nSo this is quite normal for US governments.  Democracy is only really acceptable if other states elect who the US government favour.  International law applies to all countries - the US governement would say - as long as we agree with it.  And torture is OK for us because we have special reasons for doing it but we do not accept that anyone else might.\n\nIt is worthy of note that despite the shameful arrogant hypocrisies of successive US governements, all the most recent US Presidents have made a big noise about their 'Christian Faith' and claim to 'speak regularly with God'.  What exactly is it that sets Bush (just one example) apart from, say, the (current) Iranian 'supreme' leader, Ali Khamanei?  Both were 'democratically elected', both are religious bigots who still live in the 14th Century, both literally believe in prehistoric works of fiction on the basis of no empirical or provable evidence, and both wield huge power over the lives - and deaths - of the world's population.  Isn't it time we grew up and recognised these as people who belong on the margins of our society and not at its centre?
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personally, I have no problem talking Islam flawed human rights issues but people must be not confused and mix the issue of the war on terror together..\n\n\nRight-wingers not having legitimates or valid reasons for the illegal occupation or Iraq  (nor the war Afghanistan) tend to use poor human rights of these countries as an attempt to justify a war meanwhile the underlying reason for their war is the control of oil and oil markets..\n\nIf you recall in the US the religious right went all out to counter gay marriage, the issue having been seen equally if not more important than the War in Iraq where countless of Iraqis died and more lives in a stituation that is worst than under secular Saddam hussein..\n\nIf you note the same strategy of gender race and Islam is being used against Iran by our right-wingers. First the US is trying to create an Imaginary Threat then it whinnes about human their rights..the primary human right of Iranian is the right not to be murdered and SLAUGHTERED, so this is my opinion, Iran is a country of 68 million people , I am unwilling to destroy their country and sacrifice any  Iranians including elders, beautiful women and children of Iran because \nthe US here would like to impose a democracy it overtrew 5o years ago..\n\nthe truth is the US does not want true democracy in these region most of these people would elect a theocracy..\n\nI would reform human rights in the US before reforming other countries.\n\nhere are quote from C Spannos :\n\nhe current "War on Terror" is a project of the US Empire and is a war based on lies and myths. The motive was to create a long-term war to ensure that elite concentrations of wealth and power would not be threatened, and to scare populations into accepting policies benefiting the rich and powerful. Seen in this light, Empire is used as a conduit for maintaining and increasing elite wealth, power and privilege; and war is the State's weapon to achieve these aims. Just as the current "War on Terror" is an immoral war based on lies and myths, history is full of wars of conquest and barbarism. It's the duty of an anti-war movement to raise consciousness and provide insight highlighting that not only is the current war immoral and wrong, but all war is immoral and wrong, and that war has many structural sources. So, we're faced with the task of providing vision for what a world without war would look like and how to get there.\nWar is the product of many things and these things have their own forces and institutions, all of which have their roots in the underlying structures of society: militarism, capitalism, imperialism, racism, sexism and centralized political power, etc. Unless we address the root causes of war, the imperial wars of today and tomorrow will continue to rear their ugly heads into the future. Without exposing these structural sources of war, we face the very real prospect of fighting and resisting one war after another, without ever achieving victory.\n\nA so called "War on Terror" is being waged by the most militarily powerful country on earth. The "War on Terror" is a war for Empire. It's primarily only one country waging war and this war is of Cold War proportions. (4) The world spends some $1,083 billion annually on military expenditures. The US accounts for over half of that figure alone and has a military budget 8 times larger than that of the second runner up, China. (5) The material costs of Empire are high. These material costs are distributed throughout society with a small elite escaping their negative effects and reaping the material reward. The social costs of war and Empire are perhaps impossible to imagine -- all the training, skill and talent being used to wage war, to become killers and the killed. It seems difficult for the mind to grasp this social cost, even for the current "War on Terror", much less for a distant war from a distant past.\n\nRegarding wars of &
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Sala'm Aga / Khanum!\n\nDo you want to imply that Iran's case is similar to that of the Iraq during last days of Saddam when he was denying having any WMD and USA was insisting that he was lying?\n\nIn any case, there is a great difference in the analogy. Iran has been more-or-less positively identified by the IAEA to be moving towards a secret nuclear weapons program, as per circumstantial evidences its inspectors and 'monitors' has obtained.\n\nSo, in my personal view, the President of Iran Mr. Ahmedinezad is playing high-wire act and also brinkmanship with the West (not only with USA). I am a Muslim and I worked in Iranian Air Force for two years as civilian specialist and I have no ill feeling for the Iranian people.\n\nGod forbid, if Iranian people had to live the miserable life that of Iraq then it would be solely the present government of Iran that would be held responsible to ignore numerous warnings to refrain from its present belligerent attitude and sit with world community and sort out its differences across the table.\n\nInshaAllah we hope major catastrophe could be averted and Iranians can live and prosper and be the Malaysia of the Middle East!\n\nKhuda Hafez
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They need something over there to be bombed.  I think a few cruise missiles are in order simply to wake up ahmadinejad and scare the sheet out of him.  There must be some actions and repercussions for what they are doing.  If there aren't, why would they ever stop?  It needs to be done now BEFORE they have a nuclear arsenal.  Same goes for north korea.
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Assuming your perspective just based on your question alone I'm guessing you have little knowledge about the 1998 cruise missile attack on the El-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan.  Since that plant produced the majority of the medicines which fought malaria, tuberculosis, and other countless curable diseases in Sudan, the missile strike led to the deaths of tens of thousands of Sudanese.  I'd say that was indeed a crime against humanity, wouldn't you?
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There is a principle by all opressive rulers (such as ours) it goes- the crimes they do matter, the crimes we do are ignored.  Some people call this a double-standard, but in fact it is a single standard used by all opressive regimes.  So regardless of whether or on Osama (who, by the way didn't even know 9-11 happened, he indirectly funded it supposedly) is as murderous as Bush... of course on every level of measurement Bush is worse, but in the US we cannot be objective and are forces to give in to blind flag-waving patriotism and think that we are innocents when in fact we are the most aggresive, out of control state on the globe.
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War against Iran has my full support.  I actually am in favor of jailing people like you that attempt to prevent it.  The reason is simple, they are planning a nuclear holocaust.  I would much rather people like you rot in jail then to allow any possibility that Iran might kill billions of innocent people.\n\nIf, in fact, you succeed in allowing that to happen, it won't be jail we're talking about.  It will be a date with a length of rope and the nearest tree.  I'm definitely not kidding.
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Quran says :\nIf anyone killed a person (not in retaliation for murder or to spread mischief in the land) it would be as if he killed the whole of mankind. And (likewise) if anyone saved a life, it would be as if he saved the whole of mankind -- 5:32  \n\nBut what if America asks its army to giveup weapons ????? would they survive ...Muslims are also ordered to be prepared for the war against enemy .....but innocent killing is not allowed ...
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Iran has the >>inalienable right >> as a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes and that's exactly what Iran is doing. \n\nWe all know that the US - Israel & Europe suspect the Iranian Govt. of hiding a weapons program, but they have absolutely no proof to back up these claims. \n\nWhy should we believe the West over Iran, bearing in mind the intellegence fiasco vis-a-vis Iraq and the terrible inhuman consequences emanating from that??\n\nAll US Govt. official refers to Iran's diceit and urges Iran to live up to its international responsibilities under the NPT .. sounds good .. until one realizes just how laced with hypocrisy these statemens really are.
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Yes HR 6166 EH has a clause which allows past and future war crimes. That doesn't make the bill legal, most of it is unconstitutional.  It has no effect on international law, something Bush doesn't seem to understand, and preparations are being made in other countries to charge him and others with war crimes.\n\nHe will be in his little territory (paid for with black appropriations) in Paraguay with his families Nazi buddies when they try to put him on trial.