Are American and British Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan engaging in acts of Terrorism?
terrorism is a word that has been so illused that it ceases to have any objective meaning at all. It has become an excuse, a rallying call, a bogey man and bugle for the unthinking masses. The only yard stick that can be reasonably applied to decide if crimes have been committed by the U.S and U.K government are the standards set down during the Nuremburg trials at the end of WW2. Contrary to the commonly held view, the majority of Nazis convicted at Nuremburg were convicted not of crimes related to the holocaust but for acts of aggressive war. By this measure there is no doubt that the British and American governments are war criminals. To circumvent this inconvenient truth the UK and US governments have adopted the position that international law is something that applies to other countries. I watched as cheering and whooping American sailors fired off salvos of cruise missiles into the heart of Baghdad which is a densely populated civilian area. Every man present was a war criminal,
