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that (if it occurred) was in 1998. I thought America was meant to be helping these people and ending these atrocities? not just changing the flag under which they were carried out.

also. Bush is all in favour of executions.

AND as long as you are drawing comparisons between those executions and the actions of the marines. It's important to remember that even in American culture and social values, which you would expect to be engrained in marines. Execution is allowable, when sentanced by the state, however torture and humiliation are not. How you can say sure we can kill people but must treat them humanely at home, but away from home we can abuse them is beyond me!

ALSO for america to say another country is wrong for it's laws is a bit strange considering to many countries Americas laws are flawed. I AM NOT saying i think what you SAY happened in Iraq was right or fair. But i don't think the fact that 7% of executions in america are innocent people is fair either. Nor do i agree with many other laws. But I don't suggest that people could be held accountable to another countries laws when their actions are carried out in a country that allows it. OR that they should be necessarily reinstated for the fact that what they did was perfectly legal in another country! if they were in prison its quite conceivable they were there for a reason.