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If there was justice in the world, Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, and Obama would all be in The Hague, in irons.

There is no justice in the world.

Thats far too easy. In a democracy YOU are the state.

I wonder what would happen if we could live cast our military deployments so that every voter has access to every war crime committed? Maybe then people wouldn't be so quick to sign up for another war. Or they would at least be honest about it.

Watch films and TV shows where blatantly illegal actions - including Geneva convention war crimes - are committed by the heros. I'm not persuaded the public wants less of this. And politicians sometimes play to this, asking for action that's of dubious legality

Oh, I agree fully that citizens are responsible for the actions of their military, and as well those of their politicians.

The trouble is, the people always get the rulers they deserve.

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