Originally Posted by Webby

Make an effort to read the reports from this hearing - and others. I'm not going to entertain any of your garbage, tho briefly - these are the words of the prosecution:



There are also other issues which are being treated as war crimes in currently ongoing investigations (refer to the killings of 24 Iraqis in Haditha last November as an example).

Due to the numbers of possible problem incidents, there is now demands for change of procedure where US personnel can be prosecuted in the Iraqi courts. It's clearly an absurd scenario and weakens credibility for the US military to be investigating/prosecuting serious offenses as an internal issue when other countries would refer their troops to the ICC for these types of offenses. It's also prob not a good idea to have Iraqi courts deal with this - again, they are clearly not independent tho may help cool the objections from the Iraqi govt and people.

Don't tell me trash about the UCMJ not being able to prosecute war crimes. If that is the case - who the fuck is prosecuting them? Or have we never entertained the concept that US troops could possibly commit war crimes??