Postwar Plans for the Gulf
With the veil of barbarism being lifted from Kuwait, a shocked world is now learning that its worst fears have been realized, and that Iraqi war crimes in Kuwait are on a relative par with those of Nazi Germany.
One of the very unfortunate facts of life is that every civilization occasionally produces individuals such as Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein, people whose very survival depend upon someone else’s destruction. The best way a civilized world can deal with such criminals is to hold them accountable for their actions.
The Nuremberg war trials had four very specific indictments, two of which apply to Saddam and his henchmen: war crimes and crimes against humanity.
MICHAEL A. SCOTT, Glendora
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