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agreed, biranna:
just take a look at american foreign policy since, say world war 2---murder is not a concern that moves it--murder by a politically expedient despot is not even remarked (think peron and after, think pinochet, think central america, the list goes on and on and on)---it is murder by someone who has become other then politically expedient is unacceptable. that is simply how the states work, how they have worked, how they are working in this context. this history--which is more evident to people outside than it is to those inside the states---explains why so many people around the world view american claims about its actions with at least cynicism. sadly, bushwar has done nothing to change that.
it is maybe because american actions have for so long been at cross purposes (with very very few exceptions) with its words that theatres like the potential trial of hussein acquire their weight, and why the official american view of that trial is simply not shared by most of the rest of the planet.
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