Can they be compared? Each lead a military that invaded a nation and each commanded over soldiers that committed crimes.
People are debating should Putin be executed. One said that Putin should be shot between the eyes. The legality of the whole Iraq War is in question and in hindsight we now know that they entire war was based off of lies by the US Government... not to mention its double standard. Israel is guilty of UN violations and has WMDs. hmm....
Estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths range from around 200,000 people to over 1 MILLION PEOPLE... GWB gets a pass though?
What does being elected have to do with anything when talking about War Crimes? Answer: Nothing.Bush does not get a free pass. But Zelensky was elected, Hussein was not. Bush didn't threaten to use nukes and wasn't a menace to international stability , Putin has been. Bush is no hero , but his crimes aren't as horrific and destabilizing as what we're seeing now.
What does being elected have to do with anything when talking about War Crimes? Answer: Nothing.
Less than 3,000 dead civilians in Ukraine and perhaps ONE MILLION DEAD in Iraq... and his crimes are not as horrific?
The US Military and Terrorists while engaging in the war. Are you going to quibble about numbers even when the Russians have killed less than 3,000 and the US Military killed 10 to 100 times that number... should we now include Afghanistan and the thousands more?Who killed the 1 million in Iraq, exactly?
Seriously?Can they be compared? Each lead a military that invaded a nation and each commanded over soldiers that committed crimes.
People are debating should Putin be executed. One said that Putin should be shot between the eyes. The legality of the whole Iraq War is in question and in hindsight we now know that they entire war was based off of lies by the US Government... not to mention its double standard. Israel is guilty of UN violations and has WMDs. hmm....
Estimates of Iraqi civilian deaths range from around 200,000 people to over 1 MILLION PEOPLE... GWB gets a pass though?
I guess that you don't know much about the corruption in the US Government?I guess if Bush was a war criminal that he would have been arrested and locked in prison by now, no?
Yes.Seriously?
Both resulted in the death of innocent civilians... war crimes. How is that different?Nope. Putin is a dictator and ordered the intentional killing of innocents, Bush is not a tyrant and did not order innocent people to be murdered.
The war on Ukraine is a war on a peaceful neighbor not threatening Russia or anyone else, the war on Iraq was a war on a tyrannical, terror regime that murdered innocents by the masses.
The two cases are remarkably distinct.
Deaths yes, war crimes no.Both resulted in the death of innocent civilians... war crimes. How is that different?
Deaths yes, war crimes no.
A lot of things that share similar results are vastly different.
America has a long history of coddling their war criminals.I guess if Bush was a war criminal that he would have been arrested and locked in prison by now, no?
These are crimes committed by soldiers, not war crimes of a nation ordering its troops to murder or rape.A-hem.
These are crimes committed by soldiers, not war crimes of a nation ordering its troops to murder or rape.
Bush didn't pick a rifle and shoot these innocents or ordered the soldiers of his nation's military to do so.
Yes but that's just silly, he didn't send them with orders to rape and murder innocents and their behavior was not in accordance with the US military code of conduct.Uh....no, they are blatant examples of war crimes. In each case, the laws of war were violated by US servicemen or the mercenaries working for us. Bush not personally committing said war crimes doesn’t change the fact that it was his decision making, and the policies of his army, which enabled them to occur in the first place.
Yes but that's just silly, he didn't send them with orders to rape and murder innocents and their behavior was not in accordance with the US military code of conduct.
It's very forced to try to put their crimes on Bush's hands, or on anyone other than their own for that matter.
Not to mention the torture regime they engaged in without actually giving anyone a chance to defend themselves with torture being a notoriously unsuccessful method of gaining intel.A-hem.
I’d put most of the war crimes in the hands of the mercenary forces that were hired.Yes but that's just silly, he didn't send them with orders to rape and murder innocents and their behavior was not in accordance with the US military code of conduct.
It's very forced to try to put their crimes on Bush's hands, or on anyone other than their own for that matter.
Doesn’t matter, because that’s precisely what they did. The fact that (some) of them were punished for committing said war crimes doesn’t change the fact that they committed war crimes.
Not even slightly. If Bush doesn’t make the decision to invade, they are in no position to commit said war crimes in the first place.
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