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Originally Posted by Direckshun
I don't understand it. Maybe somebody can explain it to me.
Wasn't Saddam a prisoner of war? Isn't it forbidden by the Geneva Conventions to hand a prisoner of war to his enemies? Or to execute him, even?
If anybody deserves a death sentence, it's him. But I don't understand why what we're about to do to him doesn't once again violate like 10,000 treaties regarding POWs we've signed.
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Do the Nuremberg trials ring a bell? People are tried for war crimes all the time.