Re: And how did you celebrate 1 May?

Sean O'Hara wrote:
> In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful mark declared:
>> > 
>> "We must make clear to the Germans that the wrong for which their
fallen
>> leaders are on trial is not that they lost the war, but that they
started
>> it. And we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into a trial of the
>> causes of the war for our position is that no grievances or policies
will
>> justify resort to aggressive war. It is utterly renounced and condemned
>> as an instrument of policy.  -  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert
Jackson, U.S. representative to the International Conference on Military
Trials, Aug. 12, 1945
>> 
> Not to put too fine a point on it, but Jackson was full of it. He
> needed a justification for putting people like Raeder and Doenitz on
> trial while LeMay and Harris got commendations and promotions, but
> he couldn't come out and say, "We won, you lost."
> 
I will agree only to the point of noting that Bush, Cheney, and Rummy have
not yet been tried by the World Court as war criminals.

        mark