Iran: U.S. should be tried for war crimes

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/iran26.html

TEHRAN, Iran-- Iran's hard-line president said Saturday the Bush administration should be tried on war crimes charges, and he denounced the West for pressuring Iran to curb its controversial nuclear program.

"You, who have used nuclear weapons against innocent people, who have used uranium ordnance in Iraq, should be tried as war criminals in courts," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an apparent reference to the United States.

Ahmadinejad did not elaborate, but he apparently was referring to the U.S. military's reported use of artillery shells packed with depleted uranium, which is far less radioactive than natural uranium and is left over from the process of enriching uranium for use as nuclear fuel.

Since the Iraq war started in 2003, American forces have fired at least 120 tons of shells packed with depleted uranium, an extremely dense material used by the U.S. and British militaries to penetrate tank armor. Once fired, the shells melt, vaporize and turn to dust.

[occuserpens]

1. Those who think

that Iranians will shut up, are deadly mistaken.

[Mr_Spock]

6. They are calling us on our hypocrisy

Are they allowed to do that?

[Erika]

2. Unfortunately, the Iranian statement is true

We are the only country in the world who used nuclear weapons on another country and its civilians.

The U.S. people are just now being shown that we are using our own chemical warfare on the Iraqis.

W's war has only hurt our image. And our troops are paying the price of it.

[occuserpens]

3. ?

<We are the only country in the world who used nuclear weapons on another country and its civilians.>

-- This has nothing to do with Iran and ME.
-- Militarily, nuclear attack on Japan was 100% justified, it was in the nature of WW2.

[bpilgrim]

4. we NUKED a DEFEATED try'n to surrender nation's CITIES CIVILIAN POPULATION

TWICE.

* In his memoirs Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's Chief of Staff--and the top official who presided over meetings of both the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Combined U.S.-U.K. Chiefs of Staff--minced few words:

The use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender. . . .

In being the first to use it, we . . . adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children. (THE DECISION, p. 3.)

more...
http://www.doug-long.com/ga1.htm

psst... pass the word

peace

[malaise]

7. Great link

Thanks - intelligent rational human beings opposed that barbarian behaviour. You do not use nuclear weapons on human beings - it's that simple.

[Erika]

5. Usage of nuclear weapons was part of the Iranian speech

and we did use them on civilian population centers.

I do not find it ever acceptable to use nuclear weapons on civilians. I find it abhorrent that we are using chemical warfare in Iraq.

[Jamastiene]

8. It's gotten pretty bad when a country known for violence

and super strict laws calls the country you live in out on war crimes. We have sunken so low. How will we ever crawl out of this hole that dipshit King George of the Jungle has put us in?

[DavidBowman]

9. Thanks, Iran

I don't take my international law cues from a country that still stones women. Shame on anyone who does.

[David__77]

10. From a political standpoint, this is smart.

Ahmadinejad is restoring "ideological cohesion" to an Iranian state that in recent years had lost its mooring. Make no mistake, it is a criminal and reactionary state based on an immoral ideology; nonetheless, by making anti-imperialist political stands, Iran will certainly increase its political prestige.