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The West should pay reparations to Iraq for both the illegal war and all the war crimes.


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War crimes do not justify war crimes.

You telling me a country initiating a war has the right to then ask for reparations for the damages and destruction they caused on the country they initiated the war against? That's so freaking absurd that it is actually funny!

I can only guess the wikipedia article is only a summary and the real convention could be around who is to blame for the war and other factors. Otherwise that's just so ridiculous that it actually encourages declaring wars on countries!


The Iraq war was a war crime, by the Nuremberg standards, it's aggression.

Should also be called a war crime.

If you’re upset that the war crimes of a country A against country B are left unpunished, it is still immoral to condone war crimes perpetrated by a country C against country D.

It was probably not worth it in the end, but I'm glad Saddam Hussein and Chemical Ali faced trial for genocide against the Kurdish people of Anfal. For me, genocide is a crime that justifies international response.

In my opinion, Bush should be tried in the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity.

Hundreds of thousands Iraqs were kill in and after the war, and nobody is responsible for it, only because the invaders are the most powerful and wealthiest countries in the world.


War crimes.

War crimes?

To be clear, is the position you're arguing that governments that commit war crimes should not be held to account?

Two wrongs don't make a right?

Why can't we admit that the Allies committed their own war crimes and move on?


All war crimes need to be prosecuted. I hope these will be prosecuted and set a presedent for going after western war crimes as well.

War crimes are what losers did.

We must never forget that the American people murdered 5% of Iraqs' population on the basis of utter lies and have not faced justice for this atrocious abuse.

The moral authority that Americans claim, to justify their nations' heinous crimes against humanity, simply doesn't exist. Americans AND Russians ought to be shunned for their nations' war crimes.


What about the illegal war of aggression in 2003. Our (western) leaders are war criminals.

It's hard to see similarities between marshall plan and war crimes compensations. 'murica is the widely recognized meme for the country of war crimes

You mean the USA invasion to ... and the USA war in... I assume. These crimes are crimes initiated and committed by the USA and the UK for which only Iraqis and afghans had to pay the price.

War crimes after war crimes, I hope justice day will come.

I hope that this precedent applies to any and all countries waging illegal wars. This definitely should apply to US/UK/etc regarding the Iraq War.
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