This Guardian Story sums up, with all the supporting legalities, my feelings on the US’s charges against Iraq.
Now I don’t support the Iraqi’s at all and I do believe that a large part of Saddam Hussein’s regime is guilty of all sorts of crimes against his people. However these examples of US hyper-rhetoric pot-calling-the-kettle-black type talk do no help at all. There ar plenty of other crimes to level at Saddam and his cronies without rolling out some petty ones like this. Like the article says the US are just as guilty of the similar crimes and just have a completely dismissive might is right attitude. Everyone of their reasons for keeping their own illegal detainees is covered by the Geneva convention.
What did they expect when they got into this.
