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President Trump's War Crime is Worse than the One He Accuses Assad of

Lindorff, Dave
http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/16/president-trumps-war-crime-is-worse-than-the-one-he-accuses-assad-of/

Publisher:  CounterPunch
Date Written:  16/04/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

The single most important thing that happened Friday night when the US military on President Trump's orders launched a wave of over 100 cruise missiles against Syria was that once again the US violated the most profound international law of war: initiating a war of aggression against a nation that posed no threat, imminent or otherwise, to the US or its allies.

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Called a "Crime against Peace," this violation (whose perpetrators, under the precedent set in the Nuremberg Trials that followed World War II, can face capital punishment), is considered worse than any other war crime because, as US Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Jackson explained in his argument at the Nuremberg Trials of Nazi war criminals, a war of aggressionis "not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."

President Trump, during his televised White House announcement just after the launching of his bombing attack on Syria, said, "The purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread and use of chemical weapons…We are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents."

He was making the argument that the US, acting on its own authority without any sanction from the UN Security Council as required under international law, somehow had a duty to, on its own, punish Syria for its alleged violation of a Geneva Convention against the use of chemical weapons.
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