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Originally Posted by Rochard
The Geneva Convention doesn't even apply here. He was charged and found guiilty of crimes against his own countrymen, not crimes on a foreign land involving citizens of other nations.
However, if you wish, we can surely revisit Iraq's actions in Kuwait.
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He may have been tried in absentia for Kuwait.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Saddam_Hussein
Nobody is saying he didn't commit crimes against humanity and deserve a punishment. He most certainly did. My point is the trial was not fair by international standards, human rights standards or U.S. Standards for that matter.
A war crime by definition can comprise such acts as mistreatment of prisoners of war or depriving a prisoner of war of a fair trial.