Is Iraq A War Crime?

Question

Corag again. Lets be straight. If congress decides that a group IS a terrorist organisation, do you know that this is not really valid because congress is over there in the US and its actions are valid only in the US, and these things have to be decided at the highest levels of the UN. And the UN actually declined to give legality to the Iraq invasion. It is a crime against humanity, I think.

And if the US votes for a war it does not mean it is legal even if the 300 000 000 people in the US do vote for it.

Answer 1

The war in Iraq is an illegal war and many people in UK support this view.

The Iraq war is illegal and war crimes have been committed.

The war criminals are : -

Geo. W Bvsh, President of the USA
Tory Bliar, Prime minister of UK

Guilty on all counts. These two war criminals concocted a plan which would allow them to destroy the infrastructure of Iraq and take it's oil.

Both the above named criminals will not be charged with anything. They will carry on their criminal activities, surrounded by the usual mob of sycophants and admirers.

Answer 2

Yes it is, and Bush covered it up some by removing the United States from the Geneva Convention and having Gitmo filled with POW's that don't get any human rights. This is against the American Constitution. Bush has been sited 3 times by the Supreme Court over this issue and has used executive privilege every time as an excuse of the crimes. Bush will get indicted even after he leaves office though, all of the corruption is coming to a head.

Answer 3

If invading a country for the most falls reasons or better put, to steal their natural sources and plunder their land and murder innocents men, women and children, in some occasions, while they're sleeping and thousands of kids end up being orphans, then ADOLF BUSH as ignorant and arrogant he is, puts all his efforts to cover up his invasion, disabilities and incompetence which is no secret to us and rest of the world! if this is not a war crime, we are better of kiss the humanity good by and start living like savages!

Answer 4

Technically, Iraq is an illegal war as per the United Nations Charter. As Iraq was a member of the United Nations and so was the US, it was illegal for the US to perform any sort of military action against the government of Iraq on Iraqi soil without the consent of the Security Council. Though the US is one of the five permanent members, it takes the agreement (or at the least, the absense of DISagreement) of the other four permanent members as well as a majority of all fifteen member states to perform a military action.

However, this really is a moot point. You see, the only way to (meaningfully) punish a country for any sort of transgression is by vote of the security council with the same requirements as to go to war. As the US is one of the permanent members, there's no chance of us voting to punish ourselves, see?

Answer 5

America and Britain are currently killing more in Iraq than Saddam would have over the same period.
Weapons of mass destruction?..two words...Vietnam/napalm
Germany invaded Poland. result...War Crime trials. reason.. they got defeated.
America as a nation apparently, and Tony \Blair, pretty much on his own, invade Iraq. Result..Zilch as currently they cannot be beaten.......Except...The advisors to the British Government now say that we cannot win in Iraq so we should withdraw....cue China and Russia (the latter who couldn't win in Afghanistan either)...maybe they can get Blair and Bush held to account........and remember Hans Blix.

Answer 6

Trying to rid a struggling, fledgling ally of a cancer (terrorists, insurgents, Al Qaeda) that is blowing up innocent people in Iraq? No. The people doing all this suicide and IED bombing? Yes, criminals. Not war criminals, common criminals. If they could be reasoned with, we would. All they know is killing, and are willing to die doing it. We just have to help the process along when they aren't wearing explosives.

Answer 7

Outside war being a crime I would say no.

The UN should not make resolutions with no intention of enforcing them.

Answer 8

Not in the legal sense of the phrase, no.

War crimes, like all crimes, are defined by statute. In the US, that's 18 USC 2441. [link below]

The occupation of Iraq was pursuant to an Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) by Congress.

Per the statute: "As used in this section the term "war crime" means any conduct - (1) defined as a grave breach in any of the international conventions signed at Geneva 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party; (2) prohibited by Article 23, 25, 27, or 28 of the Annex to the Hague Convention IV, Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land, signed 18 October 1907; (3) which constitutes a violation of common Article 3 of the international conventions signed at Geneva, 12 August 1949, or any protocol to such convention to which the United States is a party and which deals with non-international armed conflict;"

Many actions the US has done have violated that statute, as the Supreme Court has confirmed (see Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Hamdi vs. Rumsfeld). But the occupation of Iraq as a whole is not in violation of that law.

If you are using "war crimes" in the non-legal common meaning, then I would say to you "all wars are crimes".

Answer 9

Yes invading a sovereign nation is....

Answer 10

Any time a militant group of demented radicals purposely and indiscriminately target innocent men, women and children - you can be sure it is a war crime.
Responding (finally) to the tactics of the Islamic militants by bringing the war they desperately wanted to their own breeding grounds is not a war crime - it's self preservation.