Wars are always horribly heinous affairs. There is brutality and war crimes on all sides. The victors, however, become the only judges. Their crimes go unpunished. Look no farther than our own second war in Iraq. The Bush administration ordered, a non provoked aggressive war killing, according to the U.S. Military, over 100,000 Iraqi civilians. Who is being held accountable for these war crimes? President Obama made the politically expedient but morally reprehensible choice to move on and not to formally investigate the war crimes of Bush, Cheney Rice and Wolfowitz. As Alex Haley said in his most famous book Roots, "The conquerors write the history".
A Heinous Crime, Secret Histories and a Sinn Fein Leader’s Arrest - NYTimes.com
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