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FYI... the same Belgian law is being used to bring your US general Tommy Franks to court.
Some leftist group, accompanied by an extreme-right Arab-rights group, on behalf of a bunch of Iraqi citizens, has filed a complaint in Belgium. They say Franks is responsible for war crimes because he used cluster bombs on civilians, amongst other things.
Still think these laws (and the int'l war crimes tribunal) won't be used in international political smear campaigns?
As for Sharon... he's not a nice guy, and he has done some pretty bad things. However, the crimes-against-humanity thing is obviously politically motivated. Nobody seems to care about the other butchers; nobody is charging the founder of Hamas with crimes against humanity; nobody is trying to bring Arafat to justice; nobody is trying to bring the Jordan government to justice after their war against the PLO in 1970, which was equally brutal...
Nobody has clean hands in this war, so either everyone should be put in jail, or nobody should. Just focusing on the acts of one side isn't fair, because the other side is just as guilty.
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