Should Bush and Blair be tried for war crimes?

[Gandalf]

This has nothing to do with a trial, but we're not over their just randomly shooting civilians.





An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine this week, which
I quote:




"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000
troops in the Iraq Theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a
total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000
soldiers."


"The firearm death rate in Washington, D.C. Is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period.


That means you are about 25 per cent more likely to be shot and killed in
the US capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the
US, than you are in Iraq "

I would argue that this is more a reflection on the use of firearms being somewhat out of control in the US. How about the numbers of Iraqi civilans killed for every one US soldier? We have pretty much everyone except Lyle agreeing that the Iraq war was illegitimate. Not a healthy reflection on the US no matter how you want to try and spin things.