[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF]
It can be argued that the Iraq War is a war crime. Based upon the Nuremburg trials, we have the legal precept that aggressive war is criminal, therefore it is indeed possible to hold the people responsible for precipitating it responsible for war crimes.
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Which is not his argument, but that the law should be discarded in order to find Bush guilty of crimes.
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF]
I’m really not fond of using somebody’s nationality against them. […]The truth is that he is right, partisanship has a tendency to blind people to the realities of what we have done.
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One cannot honestly oppose blind partisanship while engaging in it. Along the same lines, one can’t support blind partisanship and then pretend that those who believe in the rule of law are blind partisan “professional apologists”.
It isn’t his nationality that’s being used against him, as it is that he is a nationalist who is on record as supporting Spanish imperialism and condoning Spanish governmental racism,while pretending that others are partisans for wanting to follow American law in order to determine and punish crimes under American law.
XT didn’t give himself enough credit. The fact that Red is a troll who not only condones, but vocally supports the history of Spanish imperialism while simultaneously pretending to have a problem when America is the issue, is germane to the subject.
It’s not a matter of him holding certain opinions, it’s a matter of him pretending to hold them in order to spew at Americans. Honestly held opinions are fine. Trolling is not.
If Red honestly believed that invading a nation in order to plunder it while butchering and enslaving the populace was wrong, he wouldn’t have gone as far as to champion such behavior when it was his nation that engaged in it. Since, by his own admission, he actually sees nothing wrong with imperialism and conquest, going so far as to support it (when it’s his country doing the invading and butchery), he’s trolling when he picks fights with Americans for not being against behavior which he himself supports, as long as it’s his country that does it.
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF]
The Iraq War, whatever your opinions of it, has been a catastrophic failure. It would be hard to argue otherwise. Yet somehow you are attempting to do so.
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Who has claimed that the war hasn’t been a failure?
[QUOTE=Airman Doors, USAF]
Don’t blame others for their opinions.
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Is it his opinion that he’s being blamed for, or the fact that he’s a troll who pretends to hold an opinion because he likes picking fights?